Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rescue. When the blizzard finally blew itself out, Army planes took off to drop supplies, scour the snow-burdened plains for signs of distress. Some spotted stranded motorists, who had survived miraculously far from towns. Some had been lucky enough to sit out the storm in their cars. One man and his wife who were marooned near Scottsbluff, Neb. had even found food-frozen ears of corn from roadside fields...
Local movie theater pressure has forced the Liberal Union Film Series to drop two films from its Spring program. The status of a third is still in doubt...
...know what the answer is," Barclay said Saturday after watching his team drop its sixth straight game. "They played well in the first half, but then Gannon had to leave the game with an injured thumb and the team started getting outhustled...
...billion the year before. (Industry's slice of the national pie was still slightly smaller than its record in 1929.) Though some of this profit was fictitious, i.e., a profit on inventory rather than actual sales, many an industry had done so well that even a drop in profits next year would leave it well off. As one businessman put it: "Our earnings have been superduper. From now on they'll be merely super...
...America and the Middle East. Domestic demand kept rising also until it reached 622 gallons per capita, v. 464 in 1941. Yet oil production at year's end was 17% above the wartime high; the shortage had been licked so thoroughly that some oil prices had started to drop...