Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...running; the G.O.P. was given a good chance of cutting four of the Democrats' eleven seats in Congress out from under them. The Democratic leaders had counted heavily on a tour by Henry Wallace this month to bolster party strength in industrial districts. Now local Democrats could not drop Wallace for fear of alienating labor votes, and they could not repudiate Harry Truman, their Party's President...
...startling note of moderation crept into Palestinian affairs last week. The "Morrison Plan" for a federal Palestine was fading like a desert mirage. The Jews refused to discuss it. Arab representatives at the London conference rejected the plan in toto. The British Government was about ready to drop...
...Chicago retailer exclaimed: "New York gets discouraged by a seven-point drop in the stockmarket but by the time the flash gets here, we're only two points discouraged. Five points get lost in the Illinois corn...
...chosen by the New York Times, were 15% under those of last year. Last May's stock prices were based on rosy hopes for big 1946 profits; last week's stock prices were based on the realization that many 1946 profits would be quite modest. The market drop was far sharper than after World War I (see chart] because the shock of disillusionment in the "postwar boom" was greater. Biggest shocker: the Pennsylvania Railroad would lose money this year for the first time in its loo-year history, unless it got a 25% freight increase (estimated loss...
Wally Flynn, left end, won his varsity II with the 1942 eleven as a freshman. Six foot two in his stockings, Flynn will drop back from the line to do the booting this afternoon...