Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quiet-spoken, 45-year-old Emmet Lavery, president of the Screen Writers' Guild and a member of the New York state bar. Like the others, he challenged the committee's constitutional right to ferret out a man's personal politics. "But," he said, "let me break the suspense immediately. I am not a Communist. I never have been, and don't intend to be. I am a Democrat, who in my youth was a Republican. Now if the committee is interested in the reason...
...rally will break up by 8 o'clock so that students going to the Harvard Princeton choral concert will have time to get to Sanders Theatre...
...first act with nothing more nor less than speed. Racing through their lines as if the second act had to go on the air at 9 o'clock, the cast smashes the two opening scenes into a paroxysmal mishmash of words. Later other devices are used to try to break the monotony and color the action; incongruous comedy, grotesque acting gestures, and banal audience participation...
...special session of Congress and stirred up talk of more commodity trading controls (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), all grain prices on the Chicago Board of Trade skittishly dropped the permissible limit. They dragged many other commodities down with them. The New York Stock Exchange also had its worst one-day break in a month. The Dow-Jones industrial average slipped 1.97 points to 182.53, losing all the gains it had made in two weeks. With profits at such reassuring highs, what was making businessmen so nervous...
...driven the breakeven point (i.e., the volume at which a business starts to make money) much higher than ever before. "If steel operations were to decline to 80% of capacity," said National Steel's Chairman Ernest T. Weir, "there would be no profit under present costs." (Prewar break-even point of U.S. steel: 48%.) Though most businessmen keep their break-even points to themselves, they were plainly worried lest a small drop in volume lead to a big profit drop. Thus, even a "mild" recession might be something like a depression for many companies...