Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chungking, where the fantastic inflation has caused businessmen to fear the financial worst, best guesses on the cause of the drop were: 1) military defeats, 2) diplomatic differences between the U.S. and China. But businessmen gloomily predicted that the end is not yet in sight. An ounce of gold (cost in U.S. dollars: $35) now sells for 30,000 Chinese dollars. Thus, the free exchange rate must go above 800-to-1 before it is proportionate to the gold exchange rate...
Sunny California took a cloudy view of the future last week. The state whose citizens earned $12 billion in 1943 (and the nation's second highest per capita income: $1,452) must prepare for a sharp drop to $9.5 billion within a year after the war. So warned California's postwar planning Reconstruction and Re-employment Commission...
...York. Most experts had predicted a big drop in New York City's civilian registration. When the count was in, it was almost up to 1940. This was due largely to P.A.C. and its allies, the American Labor and Liberal Parties. P.A.C. and its allies then boosted F.D.R.'s city plurality above 1940-from 61.2% to 61.6%. This was enough to give F.D.R. the victory, even though Dewey got a bigger plurality upstate than Willkie...
Some 250 British and Canadian troops, ready to drop from battle exhaustion, stumbled into 15th-Century Middelburg to find that Daser had paraded all his available troops-more than 2,500 of them -into the square and ordered them to squat down for the night. Then individualist Daser wrapped himself in a yellow patchwork quilt, retired to his bedroom with quantities of aspirin and Veuve Clicquot champagne, refused to go through with the formal details of surrender before dawn...
...Then our inferiority complexes come to the surface. We feel that our noses are shiny. We stumble over chairs, drop books or ash trays when we put an elbow on the desks of the Immutables. If at that moment a little Immutable would hand us a yoyo, the tension would be broken. We'd have something in our hands to play with...