Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Swimming Pool. Atlanta Chevrolet Dealer Doug McCurdy is getting browsers in a buying mood by letting them work off frustrations by taking a sledgehammer to an old Mercury emblazoned with the words INFLATION, RECESSION, GLOOM, DOOM. In Mount Vernon, Ohio, Lincoln-Mercury Dealer Jack Ostrander has started accepting cattle from local farmers as part of a trade-in deal on new cars. Ostrander pays 65? per Ib. for steers or heifers, which he ships to his farm for resale later...
...Cashin, also a member of last summer's gold-medal winning U.S. heavyweight crew, defeated MIT's somewhat smaller Paul Menig with hard, straight and criss-cross serves which Menig was unable to master. Cashin dominated the center court, forcing the Engineer to run, not dally-dally, to his doom...
...economic malaise seems to have generated an extraordinary happy-woe-lucky mood. As a laid-off Manhattan construction superintendent puts it: "I could have played out my savings and played safe, but I wanted to enjoy myself. This is the last great splurge." It could be called the Doom Boom...
...shape. A lot of terrible things have been happening lately. Freedom and justice seem to be on the decline, people are starving, the economy is slumping and the Arabs are taking over. January magazines, traditionally devoted in part to predictions for the new year, are generally portending large-scale doom. Their subject matter seems to be shifting from the personalities of the 60s to unseen, foreboding malevolent empires...
...predictions of relative doom and gloom mounted, retailers throughout the land cut prices, optimistically convincing themselves that Santa would yet arrive in the form of a last-minute buying surge that would cause plenty of jingle at the cash registers, after all. As it happened, they were absolutely right. On the days just before the holiday, shoppers invaded the stores in welcome numbers. Total national retail sales during Christmas week were up 3% over the previous week, and 11% over the corresponding week...