Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...floors above the din, was just an anonymous rectangle of light-one of thousands held by the city's glowing towers against the black sky. No one in the streets noticed the man who was silhouetted in its frame. No one saw him start his long, tumbling drop to the street...
...Most Californians blamed the unusually warm weather, pointed to a drop in cases after the arrival of cold rains and frosty mornings. But public health officials in Washington doubted the weather explanation. California wasn't the only state with loitering polio. North Carolina reported 24 new cases in the week ending Dec. 11 (last year there were five in the comparable week; in 1946, two). Cases went up, too, in Texas, Georgia, Minnesota, Iowa...
Even the booming oil industry had done such a good job of expanding to meet the fuel shortage that oil was plentiful: prices of gasoline and fuel oil were being reduced. Soft coal was also piling up, partly because of a drop in exports. Many Kentucky and West Virginia mines had cut back to a three-or four-day work week. Said Bert A. Astrup, assistant general sales manager for Shell Oil Co.: "We've rounded the Horn and we're in a buyers' market...
...buyers' market in oil, textiles, washing machines, etc. was not a blessing to all. It had brought surpluses and layoffs in many an industry. U.S. employment in November had dropped below 60 million (to 59.8 million) for the first time in five months. Part of the drop was due to greater industrial efficiency. Since the first of the year, Western Electric Co. alone had cut back its work force by 25,000. In Connecticut, layoffs were so widespread that the Stamford-Greenwich Manufacturers' Council called a conference to discuss means of reducing them...
...reason for this year's big kill was a spectacular drop in the price of fox furs. Pelts that brought as much as $32 apiece before the war were selling this fall for as little as $12. Nieman, who figures it costs him about $30 to raise a fox to maturity, stood to lose $18 on each pelt he sold this year...