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...weeks, like a hill-climbing car with water in the fuel lines, the New York stock market had sputtered upward in short uncertain bursts. One day last week the lines cleared and it began a steady climb. In the busiest session since mid-July, 1,800,000 shares were traded, with such blue chips as U.S. Steel, General Motors, and Standard Oil (N.J.) leading the parade. The Dow-Jones industrial average rose 3.32 points, biggest gain since the bullish days of last July. At week's end, the Dow-Jones average was 190.19, up 9.78 points in twelve days...
Thomas Haemerken came from Kempen near Düsseldorf. He was a shy, quiet little German monk with fresh coloring and piercing brown eyes. He was gentle with everyone, especially the poor. When the psalms were chanted he often stretched on tiptoe toward heaven with his face turned upward. He seldom had much to say about everyday affairs; but when the conversation turned to spiritual things he sometimes became so eloquent and moved that he would break off and excuse himself. "My brethren," he would say, "I must go; someone is waiting to converse with me in my cell...
...vast pillar with 121 entwined figures, carved out of a single 200-ton piece of granite. My four-year-old boy described it as "a pretend chimney with monkeys." Vigeland put it differently: "The monolith is my religion." Most observers think that he was trying to show humanity struggling upward, but since he never explained, it is also possible that he intended to show humanity losing its grip...
...Maine, New York University's Professor Raymond Rodgers told a bankers' meeting: "We are at, or very near, the end of the long upward swing...
Upturn. Industrial prices were still edging upward. International Harvester boosted prices of its farm tractors 9% and Philco Corp. raised its radio prices 2.5%, even though the radio market was swamped with sets...