Word: dipped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...indeed. In May the alltime monthly steel production record of 10,168,000 tons, set in March 1953, was topped. No one expected that the industry as a whole could maintain the current operating rate of an estimated 96.3% of capacity. Some time this summer, operations are expected to dip, possibly as low as 80% to 85% of capacity, then climb back in the fall...
...omens and enchantments, brimming with the life, dress and manners of the time, The Twelve Pictures also breathes life into a profounder theme-the last-ditch war of the pagan spirit v. the Christian faith. Author Simon writes a slightly cramped neo-archaic prose, but few living writers can dip a reader's mind so wholly and fascinatingly in a sense of the past...
...road company of The Caine Mutiny Court Martial, starring loquacious Actor Paul Douglas as loquacious Captain Queeg, wound up its tour of the South seven weeks ahead of schedule. Reason: Mutiny Producer Paul Gregory feared "a big dip" at Dixie box offices because Philadelphia-born Douglas blabbed to a North Carolina reporter (TIME, Feb. 7) that the South "stinks" and is "a land of sowbelly and segregation...
...start of the Korean war. Reasons: a month-old strike at the big Northern Rhodesia mines, and rising European demand. Although copper prices steadied at 33? a lb. in the New York market. London was offering 44? and up. As supplies grew short, the U.S. Government refused to dip into its low stockpiles, instead banned the export of all domestic refined copper, limited copper scrap export to 12,000 tons for February and March...
...eager to make new jobs, to acquire new tools of production." Faith & Hope. Last week Ike reported that the contraction had proved mild indeed. Slashed Government spending and private inventory liquidation had dropped a total of $24 billion, but the economy as a whole (gross national product) dipped only $14 billion. Clearly something was holding it up. The U.S., said the President, had followed "policies that inspired widespread confidence on the part of people." And, just as the President hoped they would a year ago, the people took it from there: "Consumers maintained a high rate of spending, businessmen kept...