Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week long, newsmen pounded out sentimental obits on the end of U.S. football's Big Game. Why had Army chosen to drop Notre Dame from its schedule? The consensus: Army, reduced to peacetime status, just didn't have the arms & the men to conquer Notre Dame...
Down Meat. Such heavy receipts had caused wholesale pork prices in New York and Chicago to drop an average of 20% since the end of September. Since mid-September, the American Meat Institute reported, all wholesale meat prices had dropped 3?-18? a pound. Retailers have been slow to cut prices accordingly. But livestock slaughter is expected to run high until year's end-the packers' busy season-and its effects were bound to reach housewives fairly soon. (Whether the lower prices would remain when slaughter tapered off was anybody's guess...
...Wheat? This seemed to put a damper on the grain market. The Bureau of Agriculture Economics last week predicted that farm prices would not drop until 1949 or 1950. This was the kind of governmental talk that had been booming up the grain markets. Yet commodities, which had been slipping, were little affected...
...Rose of the University of Chicago's Argonne Laboratory reported that engineers have considered (and discarded) some elaborate disposal schemes. One was to seal the radioactive atoms in concrete cylinders and drop them into the ocean. No good, says Rose: in 100 years or so the cylinders might break open and discharge their still radioactive atoms. Another proposal: bury the atoms deep in abandoned caves. But they might be dissolved by underground water, flow out and spread the atoms as rain...
Within the next few years, the great chunk of money brought in by tuition will be cut sharply, as the University reconverts to normal enrollments and the College abandons its three-term year. Reconversion will precipitate something of a drop in expenses, but during inflationary times such a drop can hardly compensate for the loss of tuition. This leaves the University two alternatives: to increase tuition, or to increase the endowment...