Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...business indexes were hovering around their high marks. But the curves on the wall charts in executive and sales offices were flattening out. And if allowances were made for the decreased buying power of the dollar (9.3% less than a year ago), many lines of business showed a drop in the actual volume of goods handled...
There were layoffs in the textile, clothing and shoe industries, all hit by a slump in sales. Makers of building materials (plumbers' supplies, structural steel, etc.) reported greater-than-seasonal layoffs, indicating a drop in building next spring...
...consumers, there was a cheery note: sliding food prices had caused another drop in the BLS cost-of-living index. It was off 0.8% to 172.2 (1935-39 = 100), lowest in five months...
...inhabit yours." To make sure, he went to stay a few days with Russell in Cambridge, rushed away in a state of "melancholic malaria." "I wish you would swear a sort of allegiance with me," he said. ". . . I have been much too Christian . . . I must drop all about God . . . You must drop all your democracy . . . There must be an aristocracy . . . a Ruler: a Kaiser: no Presidents & democracies...
...Drop That Lizard! After two months as strangers, Lawrence wrote again. He said frankly that "my quarreling with you was largely a quarreling with something . . . I was struggling away from in myself." He described his latest conclusions about "a blood-consciousness which exists in us independently of the ordinary mental consciousness . . . If a lizard falls on the breast of a pregnant woman, then the blood-being of the lizard passes with a shock into the blood-being of the woman, and is transferred to the fetus . . . Do you know what science says about these things...