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Word: downtrend (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Express business. (To pick up 100 Ibs. of furniture in New York City and deliver it in Chicago via Railway Express costs $12.26 v. $4.60 on a private trucking line.) The agency's traffic declined from 193.1 million shipments in 1947 to 73.5 million in 1957, and the downtrend continued in 1958. Revenues dwindled from $428 million in 1947 to $358 million in 1957 despite eleven rate increases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: Red-Ink Express | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

...Record Setters. This statistical downtrend at year's end had economists and statesmen worried, particularly since some of the prophets saw the economy getting worse before it gets better. But even including the year-end dip, 1957 was a remarkable year for business. The U.S. economy had operated at forced draft for all but the final few months. And in so doing it produced what in many respects was the most prosperous year in history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Business, Dec. 30, 1957 | 12/30/1957 | See Source »

Pinch & Punch. What did the signs add up to? Answers ranged from a breather (Dwight Eisenhower) to a serious recession (Texas' easy-money Democratic Congressman Wright Patman). Various economists and businessmen called it recession, rolling readjustment, healthy adjustment, mild cyclical adjustment, slowdown, shakedown downturn, downtrend, sidewise movement, plateau, leveling off, period of hesitation, soft period, temporary cyclical swing in long-term growth, polka-dot prosperity with the spots getting bigger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Grey Mood | 12/2/1957 | See Source »

While the market's erratic performance turned many Wall Streeters bearish, few experts cried doom. Instead, they saw the downtrend as an orderly retreat from early summer's unwarranted high level, which brought the market within a point of the alltime 521.05 peak set last year. The selling waves were generally light-average daily volume was less than 2,000,000 shares-a sign that investors are not discouraged and intend to wait out the slump. Most big institutional investors appeared to be switching to other stocks instead of leaving the market altogether; there was no sudden rise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Knee Bends on Wall Street | 9/2/1957 | See Source »

Commodity market prices often forecast retail prices six to nine months in advance, since it usually takes that long for the rise or fall in wholesale prices to be passed on. Last week the commodity markets showed a distinct downtrend. Copper, at a 90-year peak of 46 a lb. only last March, slumped to 34?, was expected to drop still further. No. 2 copper scrap, also a March record-breaker when it hit 45.5?, fell 20? to the lowest price in some two years as copper production outpaced demand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMODITIES: A General Sag | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

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