Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inventor of the turbojet engine walked off the Queen Elizabeth last week, on his way to receive the U.S. Legion of Merit. Slim, smart Air Commodore Frank Whittle of the R.A.F. was brimming (in a reserved, don't-spill-a-drop British manner) with enthusiasm...
Actually, a big part of the problem was out of businessmen's hands. It lay in the hands of John L. Lewis (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). No one was sure what would happen to prices if there was a long coal strike, a crippling drop in production and another wave of pay demands all around...
...legend of this gridiron affair, and generation after generation of Crimson football players must adjust to the outsize importance of the game. The postwar crop of athletes, as it would appear from reports from other parts of the nation, no longer is willing to shed that last drop of blood in the Homecoming Battle, preferring to eke out a successful record for their team week by week. Locker-room strife at Indiana and Ohio State has been laid to just such indifference of the local "Yale" rivalries. The fact that Dick Harlow, working with much the same type...
...around. Ford said he would hold the line. Chrysler Corp., which has started to make money, said nothing. ¶ Housing costs would soar over ceiling prices all down the line. But black markets and many bottlenecks would be ended and prices of some items-i.e., nails-would drop under black market prices. ¶ Electrical appliances, such as small motors, would go up slightly, though General Electric's President Charles E. Wilson had "no fear of runaway prices." ¶ Rents, though still controlled, might be permitted to rise in some places. But not much. OPA's figures showed...
...buying & selling all crude rubber and controlling the synthetic rubber business, it will make little difference. But the U.S. is expected to permit reopening of the New York market early in 1947. With rubber free on both sides of the Atlantic and with supplies plentiful, prices are likely to drop further. Some guessed that natural rubber would level off around 18? a pound in 1947 (4½? under the Government's present sales price). If so, the U.S. will have to close down much of its $700 million synthetic industry (price: 18½? a pound) or lower its price...