Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even so, Budget Director Smith was being professionally pessimistic. The $3 billion drop assumes only that the German war will be over some time between now and next June, and that the Japanese war will still be going on. A quicker finish to the German war, and expenditures are certain to plunge on down in a really substantial drop...
...Louis, Bookmaker Jimmy Carroll-who makes his political evaluations in the older, freer way by measuring how much money people will gamble on their guesses-announced a drop in the odds against Dewey. Right after the national conventions, betting was 3-to-1 on Franklin Roosevelt. Now it is 2½-to-1. Reason, according to Bookmaker Carroll: "a flood of Dewey money...
...increasing business. Trippe plans to get the equipment first and then drum up the business. Eventually he expects to shave passenger fares to 3½? a mile (current average: 8¾?) and thus tap the probably enormous "See South America in Two Weeks" vacation market. He expects to drop average cargo rates to 25.4? per ton mile (current rate...
...Bucky has wonderful personality, and is always helping everyone." Jordan saw him drop a hint on pitching motion to Elmer Riddle, which Kirby thinks was "the turning point in Elmer's career." These are a few of the diamond personalities which the Radar School's athletic director has met, and he is a good friend of Bob Feller, Pepper Martin. Yank Terry, Cliff Melton and others. "Martin wants to buy my bird-dog, but I won't let him have...
...whom we had interned 10,000) were killing themselves. I headed for the northern tip of Saipan, a place called Marpi Point, where there is a long plateau on which the Japs had built a secondary airfield. At the edge of the plateau there is a sheer 200-ft. drop to jagged coral below; then the billowing sea. The morning I crossed the airfield and got to the edge of the cliff nine marines from a burial detail were working with ropes to pick up the bodies of two of our men, killed the previous day. I asked...