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...Wheat? This seemed to put a damper on the grain market. The Bureau of Agriculture Economics last week predicted that farm prices would not drop until 1949 or 1950. This was the kind of governmental talk that had been booming up the grain markets. Yet commodities, which had been slipping, were little affected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMODITIES: Freedom at Work | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

Third Party Damper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wallace Hits Policy Shift | 10/2/1947 | See Source »

There was one damper to all the enthusiasm: after a century of study, scientists still have no answer to the elementary question-how does an anesthetic produce its effects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Ether Centennial | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

...fielder. Eckenroth looked at two strikes and then hit a hard ball back of second, and it looked like it was going out to center field for a hit; but the Bruin shortstop made a spectacular stop of the ball and just threw Eckenroth out at first, putting the damper on the rally...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brown Edges Crimson Nine 3 to 2 in Curfewed Tussle | 8/30/1945 | See Source »

...biggest threat that B.P.E. could muster was in the seventh inning, when they gathered two hits from "Lefty" Knowles, but Knowles settled down and struck out the next batter, putting the damper on the inning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Nine Tops Boston Embarkation Team, 10 to 2 | 7/19/1945 | See Source »

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