Word: downward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Citizen was crowding the counters of the nation's stores. Chain-store sales were running 13% above last year, department store sales in some cities were up as much as 35%. September mail order sales were up 42%. It took no statistical microscope to perceive that the long downward sweep of the business curve had, at last, a little upward hook...
...dark storm of selling tumbled the price 6¢ per bu. in two days. In Liverpool, Rotterdam and Buenos Aires wheat fell in confusion. In Chicago, no longer a world market, all contracts dropped below $1 for the first time since the Drought. Other commodities, notably rubber, joined the downward march...
...tabulations were completed and its guesses made. Frosted glass windows prevented so much as an eyewink to the outside world. In the centre of another room six or eight newshawks stood in a chalked square, waiting. Finally Mr. Callander emerged, placed mimeographed copies of his mystical figures face downward on tables with telephones, and, full of excitement, cried, "Get ready?go!" The newshawks leaped to the telephone tables...
When Ford's daily quota of 5,000 automobiles is all but reached the whistle blows, the music slurs downward as wheels stop spinning. A worker shakes his head unhappily as he reads a sign: PRODUCTION TODAY, 5,000; COMPLETED, 4,999. When everyone has gone the "V 8" insignia on a Ford hood becomes an imp resembling a male Betty Boop who summons the Ford parts to assemble themselves. The accompaniment gaily plays snatches from Chopin's Polonaise Militaire, Beethoven's Ruins of Athens, Mendelssohn's Spring Song. The connecting rods do an authentic square...
...have made the cocktail hour smart and popular. Some of our wet friends are now talking about education for enlightened drinking but allied youth feels that if one is enlightened," one does not care to drink. It is the first taste of alcohol which sends the drunkard on the downward path. We feel somewhat superior to these who pay good money to slide down to hill. No we do not want prohibition back again we only want to tackle it from a personal point of view...