Word: came
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Meat. All this meant a still bigger drop in the cost of living, which was precisely what the U.S. consumer had been hollering for. Hogs slumped to within 50? of the OPA level. Cattle worth $28.50 a hundredweight a week ago dropped to $24.50. Retail meat prices came down another 2? to 4?, chain stores trimmed egg prices 6?, wholesale soap came down 6%. Whether meat would continue the fast drop was questionable. Thousands of sheep & cattle had already died in the blizzards on the rangelands, though ranchers were desperately bulldozing paths through the snow to get their animals...
...only in foods. Some oil companies, in their fourth successive slash in the price of fuel oil, brought the total cut to about 33%. In two months lumber had felt its biggest price spill since war's end. Prices of secondhand automobiles, both "new" and used, came tumbling down. Dealers were so overstocked with "new-used" 1949 models in the higher-priced cars that they had cut their buying offers to 10% and 15% below list prices...
...Curtiss-Wright Corp., once the biggest U.S. aircraft company, a new war began when peace came. It seemed to be a losing battle from the start. With 16 of its 19 plants shut down, Curtiss-Wright began losing out on orders from the Air Force. It also got little business from civilian customers. It still had $100 million in cash, but President Guy W. Vaughan was saving it for a rainy...
...stockholders were not quieted. Still faced with rebellion, Vaughan upped himself to board chairman two months ago, raised Wright Aeronautical Vice President William C. Jordan to president and asked Investment Banker Paul V. Shields to help him put some new life into the company. Last week the new life came in-and Curtiss-Wright got one of the biggest shakings-up of its 30-year career...
...Deal. Out went Air-Frame Builder Burdette S. Wright and Engine Builder William D. Kennedy, both Curtiss-Wright vice presidents of long standing. In came a high-powered slate of directors. Among them...