Word: downtrend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...extra cash in the hands of consumers to spend, that also proved to be a burden on the economy. Retail sales started up again. The businessmen of good will-such as International Harvester's Fowler McCormick-who had cut prices in hopes of starting a healthy downtrend all around, had to change course; they put prices up again. The hope had been that the U.S. would be able to add the burdens of ECA and rearmament without more inflation; that they would merely take up the slack in the economy as it developed...
...manufacturing groups studied, the Survey found that nine were continuing an unbroken uptrend begun in 1945, but 17 had shown declines for six months or more. In the downtrend group were automobile tires, truck-trailers, water heaters, oil burners, glass containers, shoes, and women's and children's clothing (see Textiles...
...depression, U.S. insurance companies had to take over 100,000 farms, worth (on the books) over $1 billion. By the end of the next crop season, most companies figure they will have disposed of all of them. Increased earnings from such sources arrested-at least temporarily-a 14-year downtrend in the net interest rate of U.S. insurance companies last year...
...Coal, production was up from December, mainly because of colder weather, but under inventory pressure prices begin to follow the general downtrend. Evidence of increasing coal inventories in mining centres: freight loadings of coal fell, in spite of increased production, in spite of the freezing of the Ohio around Pittsburgh which prevents shipment by river. Further declines in steel & other production will curtail coal demand...