Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Colonel's own estimates, that will not be until 1960 or 1965. So he is by no means ready to drop the reins; he has nothing but pity for his Yale classmates "who went into the big Eastern banks, retired at 60 and now have nothing to do." He has plenty to do. The country is still to be saved; the Midwest has still to be rescued from the East, and the U.S. from the British Empire...
...CRIMSON Editors, past and present, are cordially invited to drop into the CRIMSON Building before the game this afternoon for punch or highballs. Morning exercises end at 12 o'clock, the game begins at 3, so come in any time after...
...Chevvy. . . . I'll tell you why. To make machines work . . . it takes a bunch of kids who worship the pliers and the screwdriver rather than the hammer & sickle. And that's us-not them. . . . Don't go telling me they're going to drop an atom bomb on my home. They'll first have to learn the difference between borscht and lubricating...
...Louis had no afternoon papers one day last week because the men who print them didn't like one of the news stories. George L. Berry, president of the A.F.L. pressmen's union, had sent a telegram to his St. Louis local, ordering it to drop its plan for a slowdown strike. When the pressmen discovered a story about Boss Berry's decision in the afternoon Post-Dispatch and Star-Times they pulled the pressroom switches and walked out, right in the middle of the press run. After a five-hour walkout, union leaders, aware...
...biggest U.S. mail-order houses (Sears, Roebuck & Co., Montgomery Ward & Co. Inc., Spiegel, Inc.) cut tire prices as much as 12%. But tires were not the only things catching up with demand in the rubber business. Since rubber was decontrolled on April 1, the price of natural rubber has dropped more than 5? a pound to 18½?. Rubber for delivery in September (futures) dropped to around 16?, less than the 1939 price. Caught by the drop was the RFC, which bought & sold all U.S. rubber until April 1. It owns 110,000 tons of salable rubber which cost...