Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Good to the Last Drop. In San Francisco, Sherwood Unkefer, sore at losing $475 in a holdup, charged after the fleeing bandit, who held him up again, took a $2,200 ring...
...picul of gold was a drop in the bucket; he had reaped one of the polyglot Portuguese colony's biggest fortunes from his teeming salons, where gamblers from nearby Hong Kong and South China came for fan-tan and cusek (played with dice). During the war Foo got into the big time; he cornered Macao's food market. On the profits he kept six concubines in a Macao mansion...
...experts. Dick, a confident but not cocky youngster, began to look good last summer when he ripped through boys' tournaments in straight sets, won the National Outdoor Boys' Singles championship without trouble. Besides a powerful forehand, he has an exceptional change of pace, a tantalizing drop shot. A big fellow for his age, Dick Mouledous (whose father runs a butcher shop) is over 6 ft., weighs...
Some companies, squeezed between high costs, price ceilings and dropping volume, skidded into the red in the last quarter of 1945. But even the red ink had a rosy tinge. In many cases it was caused, not by a catastrophic drop in business, but by a laudable desire to pay off the old mortgage, i.e., the money spent to expand facilities during the war. When the war ended, companies stopped paying for their plants in installments, charged them off in a lump sum. As most of the cash would have gone to the Government anyway in taxes, this cost them...
Down Rails. The railroads were a prime example. Rail profits have been slipping steadily since 1942, unable to outrace rising operating costs. But in 1945, under the weight of fast amortization, the drop was breathtakingly sharp. The Association of American Railroads reported that net profits of Class-I roads dropped to $453,000,000, more than $200,000,000 under...