Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Margaret Truman was coming right along. In Washington, she danced with Hollywood's beautiful Robert Taylor at the Navy Relief Society Ball. In Philadelphia, the Robin Hood Dell concert people wanted her for a July concert (at a reported $2,500), and it looked as if she might drop over from the Dell and pitch a few notes to the Democratic National Convention...
...Reduce farm prices and guarantee fanners that those prices would not drop for three years...
...British motorists, the Government's ending of the "basic petrol ration" last fall had seemed the last heartbreaking straw in the load of enforced joylessness. Except for business and in hardship cases, they would not get one drop of gas for their cars. Even "basic" had been skimpy. The driver of a 30-miles-to-the-gallon Austin could go only 270 miles a month. With the end of "basic" he had nothing for a drive to the station, an occasional shopping trip, or a weekend spin in the country with the family...
...overalls over his natty $75 suit. Officially, he is always on his way to or from "drain trouble." An enterprising publican near Birmingham bought a hayrick, stuck it in a nearby field, and advertised it "for sale." Farmers could drive to the field to inspect the hayrick and, incidentally, drop into the pub for a pint...
...world spot price had been 8.5?.) The big fall was due to prospects of a huge crop in Cuba, little buying by Europe and a 1948 U.S. import quota smaller than Cuba had hoped for. In a few months, after U.S. refiners had used up their stocks, the drop would bring down retail prices...