Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some blamed four inches of snow blanketing the roof, but this was not an unseasonal load, and the roof should have carried it easily. Others in Genoa's streets muttered darkly of profiteers. Last week, as investigators combed the wreckage, Cornigliano suspended all its building contractors until it determined...
There was evidence to support the President's view that it is time for a change in the farm plan. The old program is encouraging production of huge surpluses, keeping food prices high, destroying the farmer's market, costing the taxpayers $900 million a year-and yet it...
Jim Packer was a good mining engineer with a speculator's itch. He had an unshakable belief in America, in progress, and in his own good luck. Like most people in Arizona of the '80s, he dreamed of striking it rich. His son Tommy heard him say that...
While farm prices dropped 10% and farm income 7% (to $13 billion), it was still the seventh best year for farmers-and they were a long way from disaster. One cattleman, for example, who went to Washington to plead for support prices for beef, said that the drought and falling...
The guarded optimism-and awareness of a possible readjustment-were themselves good guarantees against disaster. They warded off excesses. One of the reasons for the slip in business toward the end of 1953 was that businessmen were cautiously ordering less, working down their inventories. The inventories, while still enormous ($78...