Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bradstreet's daily wholesale price index of basic commodities, which had jack-rabbited up for three weeks, finally leveled off at 229.67, then dropped a few points. One of the reasons was the price drop in meat...
...motored, shark-bodied plane had passed & repassed over his father's farm all day, practicing landings at the nearby Reading, (Pa.) airport. But this time something was wrong. A plume of black smoke trailed from the plane, then burst into red flame. Farmer Boeshore saw the big craft drop into a glide and head for the field two miles away...
Some Germans wondered why Molotov would not let them have an advance on the wonderful future he had promised. Said one Berlin office worker: "If Molotov is really interested in Germany, I don't understand his refusal to drop zonal frontiers." But most of the press on the right (German) bank of the Rhine completely ignored this purposeful Molotov paradox and played up Russia as Germany's best friend. Typical sample: the Liberal Democratic Party's Der Morgen headlined: "What Molotov demands for Germany" as contrasted with what the Western powers "demand from Germany." Said a German...
...better. There was little of it in 1846, when the population was 60, even less four years later, when the population was 15,000-mostly gold miners, ex-convicts, hoodlums and pioneering whores. Then the town was a bedlam where gamblers murdered one another at the drop of a deuce and drunks suffocated to death in the mud of Montgomery Street. Six times in one and a half years the ramshackle town burned down...
...extreme example: Fifth Avenue's Ricardo's jewelry advertisement: "BURSTING FURY -Atomic Inspired Pin & Earring. New fields to conquer with Atomic jewelry. The pearled bomb bursts into a fury of dazzling colors in mock rhinestones, emeralds, rubies and sapphires. . . . As daring to wear as it was to drop the first atom bomb. Complete...