Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Later, it was charged that the executions had been cruelly bungled. Cecil Catling, correspondent for London's Star (a veteran crime reporter and an expert on hangings), declared that there was not enough room for the men to drop, which would mean that their necks had not been properly broken and that they must have died of slow strangulation. In addition Catling claimed that they were not properly tied, so that some hit the platform with their heads as they went down and their noses were torn off. The U.S. Army denied his story...
Actually the fall of commodity prices now might be a blessing in disguise. For consumers, it should eventually mean lower prices for cotton goods and many other items. For businessmen it was a clear warning. The drop in commodity prices, which almost everyone had forecast, had started. But it had started months sooner than expected. The drop might bring on a readjustment of prices sooner (there was some betting that the recession might come now in four months). But the sooner it came, the less severe the adjustment of prices would be. And the less severe it was, the sooner...
...Fares. Patterson said that air travel is falling off* while operating costs are going up. United's load factor (percentage of seats filled) had dropped 4% in three weeks. Patterson was sure that it would drop even more sharply when winter weather disrupts airline schedules. And air lanes have become so crowded that United has decided to cancel flights this winter 200 miles ahead of destinations where more than ten planes are "stacked up" waiting to land. This, Patterson admitted, will result in the poorest flying record in years. At the same time, operating costs have risen so much...
...want of lard, National Biscuit Co., the nation's largest baker, closed its New York and Philadelphia plants. All other big bakers either cut production or planned to close. For want of hides and leather, shoe production next month would drop to about one-third of the first-quarter level, with many shutdowns of shoe factories in the offing. For want of animal extracts, insulin and streptomycin supplies dwindled toward a critical...
...takes about twice as much time, that same contract must be supported by two pictures or less. All of this means trouble when the present abnormal movie boom tapers off and admission prices are cut. The box-office take, which soared with rising ticket prices (see chart), can drop just as rapidly...