Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alarmed by the sudden drop, the Government has been urging women to marry early, bear often. Alarmed, too, by the gaps left by warriors departed for China, it has urged women into jobs. On farms they have virtually supplanted men. Factories, particularly heavy industries, are hiring more & more...
...followed where Harry Sinclair led. Standard of New Jersey, Atlantic Refining Co., many another big operator stood pat. Within a few days Sinclair Refining had to drop its price to the old levels in the marketing areas of all the other big companies...
When my last subscription expired I let it drop because of some of your previous spotlight work. I renewed it this week...
...Manhattan's café society. In a complicated little story about life & love in a Manhattan residence hotel for women, untypical Miss Maxwell plays herself (explaining her presence in the unswank Sherrington as her substitute for a vacation in the mountains), popping out brisk remarks, decanting an occasional drop of the Maxwellian philosophy, which undoubtedly seems headier after 2 a. m. On cocktail parties: "They're only given for people not good enough to be asked to dinner. And because of that they stay to dinner-and supper-and breakfast." On life, as passed on by her father...
...insurance on new mortgages. But for three weeks to July 15, FHA's volume of new business (which had been up 32% from 1938) fell 10% below the $65,180,129 of applications received in the same period last year. This reversal was due to a sharp drop in applications on houses already built. But applications for houses to be built ran only 15% ahead of last year against a margin of 68% enjoyed earlier in the year. To offset this, FHA this week made another reduction in the maximum interest rate-from 5% to 4½%. Reason: cutting...