Word: dipped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when the geologists examined rocks from Maryland more than 350 million years old, they found that their magnetism pointed in an entirely different direction. The south-seeking ends of the magnetic particles were pointing downward as the needles of "dip circle" compasses do in the southern hemisphere. The ancient Maryland rocks acted magnetically as if they had been formed nearer to the southern magnetic pole (in Antarctica) than to the northern one (in Canada...
Though he was perhaps the most spectacular performer of the season, he was not alone. The fall of 1949 produced a full flowering of the congressional junket. With EGA, D.P. camps, trade barriers, military installations and the Folies-Bergere all to be inspected, almost any standing committee could dip into the public purse for foreign travel. A great many...
Cheered by the improvement, Federated Department Stores' able President Fred Lazarus took a speculative look at the future. For the rest of this year he guessed that unit sales would pick up and match last year's record high, although dollar volume would dip. Next year looked almost as good. "The next six months," predicted Lazarus, "will show no further drop in employment or production." Federated's Director Paul M. Mazur, a senior partner of Manhattan's Lehman Bros, investment banking firm, thought that the strikes even held some concealed blessings for business: "They often provide...
Furthermore, said Harris, college graduates could expect their salary advantage (over non-college men & women) to dip even more than it has. In 1940, the college man earned about 32% more than the American average; by 1948 he was making only 10% more. "The time may come," warned Harris, "when, on an average, the college-trained worker will earn less than the non-college worker...
...college and university income, of course, are tuition and other students fees, and today across the country these are at their peak. However, the higher rates aren't having their full effect in narrowing the cost-income gap because enrollments are falling. In Harvard's case the enrollment dip simply reflects the University's decision two years ago to slash war-swollen figures. Many other colleges, however, would like to continue with a bigger students body but can't because fewer and fewer men today have enough money to pay the expensive bill...