Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like most midget men, Schindler does not agree that the crowd's lust for blood is the basis of the sport's popularity. In fact, attendance has been known to drop after a fatal accident. Critics of the sport have overlooked its obvious, uncomplicated charms. It is fast, hotly competitive, requires skill and nerve and, like most crowd-pleasing American pastimes, involves lots of noise. When half a dozen cars whine down the straightaway inches apart and fling into a screeching slide around a curve, the drivers brush lightly against the wings of death...
...Belgrade (see Conferences). Would the Westerners care to see the third-in-command, one Valerian Zorin? They would. One by one they saw Zorin, and though they left aide-mémoire, they said emphatically that they wanted to see Molotov. Thereupon, from wherever he was resting his drop-forged constitution, Molotov came back to Moscow...
...abundance promised by agriculturists last week caused another sharp drop in all grains, brought them close to their support level. Though grain prices, on an average, are still three times those of prewar, the Government is required to stabilize them at that high level by grain buying and loans to farmers. Moreover, as industrial prices rise the support level will rise too: the complex parity formula ties farm-support prices to industrial prices. In effect, the Government may soon be required to force up grain prices from their present levels...
...They Drop Over." In the Jhelum valley, to the west, last week an Indian officer showed TIME Correspondent Robert Lubar a map on which numbers of regular Pakistan units were labeled in. Lubar asked what was the source of his information. "Partly from prisoners," he answered. "Also they drop over and see us sometimes. The Pakistan battalion commander here and the Indian battalion commander here are both former platoon commanders of mine...
Raises Compounded. The most painful . rise of all came jn food, the one item that housewives might have expected to drop, in view of bumper crops in prospect. But damand was also up, thanks to civilian employment, which had reached a peak of 61,296,000 in June, 1,217,000 more than ever before. Thus, the price of meat in Kansas City soared to a local record of $40.50 a hundred pounds for beef steers, and a world record of $34.25 for feeder (i.e., still-to-be-fattened) steers...