Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John Menton, manager of the Roger Kent clothing store, claimed that prices would not drop within the next five months in spite of the fact that his business is slower than last year...
...decided drop in food prices has been felt by the Wursthaus, but its proprietors claim the slump is seasonal and food costs can be expected to curve up again in the spring...
...drop around at 7:30 p.m. tonight if you want to get the same training that sent Joseph C. Grew '02, James B. Conant '14, Cleveland Amory '39, and the late Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 on their...
...drop was not only in foods. Some oil companies, in their fourth successive slash in the price of fuel oil, brought the total cut to about 33%. In two months lumber had felt its biggest price spill since war's end. Prices of secondhand automobiles, both "new" and used, came tumbling down. Dealers were so overstocked with "new-used" 1949 models in the higher-priced cars that they had cut their buying offers to 10% and 15% below list prices...
...Plan A provides for a strong Mayor and doesn't have the unpleasant proportional representation rider attached, although it does out the Council from 22 to nine members, lopping off some important sources of graft for the machine. Of course Curley, intends only to confound the opposition; he will drop his support of the plan once it gets on the ballot, send the word along the line, and the machine will be operating under the same old system after the elections in November...