Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end, the company filed with SEC the required updating of its January 1944 prospects. It showed what can happen to war babies when war orders drop. Because of cutbacks and previous overbuying by customers, demand for self-locking nuts fell sharply during the second half of 1944. The company that earned $1,084,381 in the first six months sustained a net loss during August, September and October of $200,000. But company officials believe a profit can still be shown on the full year...
Charles Burrows, a carpenter in Brougham, Ont., got his second summons for military service, with a sharp reminder that, if he ignored this one, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police would drop around. Burrows, a Boer War veteran, is 66. Charlie Morton, a glassworker in Vancouver, B.C., also got a summons. Said Morton, who is 72: "I've got flat feet, a bad right arm, and a stiff back, but if they need me, I'm willing...
...friend from Milwaukee at the Ritz Bar. To hundreds of young newspapermen, a year or two on the Herald staff meant a finishing course in elementary journalism and a lifetime of nostalgia. In city rooms and editorial sanctums all over the U.S. there are oldtimers ready at the drop of a Martini to reminisce about the Herald's drafty, dingy shop in the rue du Louvre beside a clangorous trolley line; to swap legends about the fabulous, wispy, ageless columnist "Sparrow" Robertson who sent his copy over from Harry's New York Bar and lived 20 years...
...materials, is expected to be Iowa's lame-duck Senator, Guy M. Gillette. (He cannot be appointed till his present term expires.) The Senate will probably approve him. But it would be no sinecure-already the Board has stirred up one bitter fight which caused the President to drop his first choice for chairman, Defense Plant Corp. President Sam H. Husbands (TIME...
...increase in payments due to foreign nations has brought the amount of gold owned by the U.S. down from $23 billion in October 1941, to $21 billion, may drop it another $5 billion when & if foreign nations and individuals are again permitted to cash in their dollar credits for gold...