Word: stockmarket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weeks the New York stockmarket has dawdled while buyers tried to make up their minds about the war. Last week, they came to a decision they were willing to bet on: Germany will last for another six months, at least. Result: the market surged upwards in five successive million-share days. And the bellwether Dow-Jones industrial averages, which reclined in the optimistic days of last September, rose to their highest point, 151, since January...
...insult to his wife, the Major proceeded to ruin the remiss millionaires, one by one. When Susie discovered that one of them had resorted to suicide, she not only determined to halt her husband's vengeful program but succeeded, thanks to some pretty shrewd manipulation of the stockmarket...
...current stockmarket boom has furnished a plushy cushion for seats on the New York Stock Exchange. Last week, an exchange membership sold for $75,000, up $3,000 in three weeks. The price of seats has almost doubled in a year, is now the highest since November...
...flop. He flopped again as a comic until he got the idea of telling his Jewish stories in blackface, clicked in vaudeville, climbed to George White's Scandals. Later Holtz abandoned cork for a cane, made vaudeville history by playing the Palace for ten straight weeks. The stockmarket crash dropped him "from a million to $732"; the decline of vaudeville drove him to pastures new; but after a dozen years of musicomedy, radio, Hollywood, show-producing, real-estate trading, today he has most of his million back...
...later on life down through all Christian minstrelsy." Old Parr, Campbell and Robinson explain, was the grand old man of Shropshire who finally trembled into his grave at the age of 152 (1483-1635). Parr and wallstrait are puns ("par" and "Wall Street") on the rise & fall of stockmarket values. The immense polysyllable that fol lows the word "fall" is the voice of God's wrath over the fall of man, the crash of Finnegan from the ladder, and the thunder clap that inaugurates a new period of history...