Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Enlistments, too, were sure to drop. In the past year, 90% had been teen-agers who signed up to beat the draft and get a better deal (choice of branch and choice of theater in which to serve). With the immunity granted them by the amended law, the boys' incentive to volunteer was gone. So, in effect, was the draft. By year's end, the Army estimated, it would be losing 55,000 men a month by discharge, receiving only 25,000 replacements...
Doris Duke ("Richest-Girl-in-the-World") Cromwell got a drop-in-the-bucket back on her 1944 income tax; she had paid $29,968 too much...
...upswing until there is either 1) real economic cooperation between the zones, or 2) acceptance of the split, followed by a positive U.S., British and French policy for getting their part of Germany going. The present level of German production was so low (and so likely to drop further) that not even the most vindictive Morgenthau-er could reasonably object to emergency recovery measures...
...year-old mistake. "Hard on the plain man" (says Philologist H. W. Fowler) but dear to the heart of many a Briton is the age-old habit of spelling it "Magna Charta" and pronouncing it "Magna Karta." Last week the Lord Chancellor invited the Lords to drop the h. They...
...Thomas Beecham, chin-whiskered conductor of the London Philharmonic, who sounds off at the drop of a demiquaver, steamed into the port of Southampton from his latest U.S. junket, and sounded off: "Hollywood is a universal disaster compared to which Hitler, Himmler and Mussolini were trivial and fleeting incidents. . . . All the arts in America are a gigantic racket run by unscrupulous men for unhealthy women...