Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...return to voluntary subscription would mean, abundant publicity or no, a severe drop in circulation which would lead to a curtailment of much of our advertising which depends on the large circulation. Therefore financial motivation is the News's most urgent argument for compulsory subscription. Without the money there can be no paper at Radcliffe...
...blast of air. Usually the phosphorus is the last impurity to go. The Little scientists propose that a small amount of radioactive phosphorus be added to the mix. When it (and the ordinary phosphorus with it) has been burned out of the steel, automatic instruments will note instantaneously the drop in radioactivity. Then the air blast can be shut off at exactly the right moment...
...Macy's, pushing a 90th anniversary sale, had a $1,000,000 day for the first time in any spring season (its daily sales have topped a million 37 other times, during the Christmas rush). But retail trade generally, reported Dun & Bradstreet, suffered a post-Easter drop of 3% to 7% from the same period last year...
Captain Sam Savidge was the only man to drop a full point to a B.U. player, a feat he accomplished by shooting an even 80. He did, however, win in the best ball play, thereby evening himself up for the afternoon. Both Sam Seagar and Bill Rickenbacher toured the links in 77 strokes...
...Cause for Alarm? A drop in total sales in February, due to the short month, made manufacturers' inventories grow by $300,000,000, to $24,300,000,000, an all-time high, said the Department of Commerce. But as long as sales kept pace with production (and the daily average value of shipments was up 5%), the figures gave no cause for alarm...