Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...empire had taught him a lesson. Instead of mushrooming all over, he tried to make some sense out of the rickety maze of companies (45) he had. He wanted to turn Cord, the bad holding company, into a good operating company. One of his first moves was to drop the Cord name, substitute Aviation and Transportation Corp. for the top holding company. Then, like a horse trader, he sold, bartered and junked the money-losing companies in ATCO and AVCO and a holding company of lower degree, Aviation Manufacturing Corp. (AMCO...
...face of this, the British Government had stopped buying. Rubber was so plentiful that London gossiped that the British Board of Trade was about to restore a free market. If it did, prices might drop even lower, and the British might have to take a whopping loss on the rubber already bought for 23½ ?. To Wall Streeters the moral was plain: if the price of crude rubber, once among the scarcest of commodities, could drop so quickly, how long would the sky-high prices of other "short" commodities stay...
...Grolier Book Shoppe is open most of the time, excepting the few times a year Cairnie gets the yen for leisure and runs off to New Hampshire. To those who are interested, the management has extended the invitation to drop in for a quiet browse. Only don't ask for Muzzey's "American History." They...
Perennially one of the leaders, History 1 now ranks only fourth with its 509 students barely an increase over a prefar 462 and definitely a drop from a 1933 high...
Even the booming retail trade received a warning from R. H. Macy's economist, Q. Forrest Walker, that it must trim its inventories against the day when public buying slackens and prices drop...