Word: crashingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...almost everyone knows by now, raw material, labor, and manufacturing costs set basic prices, which, in turn, are marked up as goods flow towards shops and consumers. Business men and farmers are well aware of this. But, with unholy naivete, they still hope to sense the imminent price crash in time to slow down or temporarily halt production, having squeezed enough profits out of exorbitant prices to tide them over. This gamble lay behind the NAM's successful war against the OPA last year, and it is this same gamble that seems dangerously close to being lost in the near...
...once mere reflect competition and not indifference. And labor, having gained its wage demands, must rid itself of the 1930's philosophy of stretching out the work. Newburyport has been great fun for the storekeeper, but the real job begins with the producer. If he delays further, a price crash, recession, and unemployment will follow the Forth of July skyrockets into the national view...
...Since Joe Palooka's girl, Ann Howe, got lost in the mountains of Wyoming after a plane crash last December, Cartoonist Ham Fisher has been flooded with more than 40,000 anxious inquiries and offers of help. They came from Senators, mayors, police chiefs, Legion posts. Even Harry Truman asked, when Fisher visited the White House: "When's Joe going ta find that girl?" By last week, Ham Fisher had had more than enough. In a special panel in his cartoon strip he assured Palooka fans: "JOE WILL FIND...
Congratulated: Prince Carl Gustaf of Sweden, who was making a royal try at standing upright for his birthday this week (see cut). Next in line for the throne after his grandfather (since his father's plane-crash death last January), he was just turning one, already had the situation firmly in hand...
...Against 18,000. In Los Angeles last week, amid the rumble-and-crash of mineralite balls on maple alleys, Andy Varipapa again flunked his A.B.C.s. The unknown who pushed into the lead at the tourney's halfway point was slim, 49-year-old Fred Breckle of Detroit. His score was 738; Varipapa's, 715. But the man the crowds came to see was Varipapa, who has won every other major tournament often enough...