Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Survivor Montgomery: "I consider myself pretty much of an authority on Mr. Wada's English expressions. We called them Waddisms." The court also got superlative evidence of the American soldier's ability to wisecrack. Through parched lips, American prisoners had muttered: "Wada, Wada everywhere, and not a drop to drink...
Saturday morning, the groggy traders tried to sell before the gong rang. In 20 minutes, May corn fell another 8? limit. One flustered trader put a sell order in the wrong pocket of his coat. Before he found it, the price drop had cost...
...most businessmen welcomed the drop. They hoped it would lessen the shock of the readjustment in prices that had to come. They did not think it would shake the economy into a recession. Said Morris Sayre, president of the National Association of Manufacturers: "I suspect we are now on our way to taking the cap off the high cost of living...
Such self-sacrifice moved the party to forgive Miss Li. She burst back into the campaign by hiring a plane to drop 50,000 leaflets. Cried one of her fans: "She's like Napoleon come back from Elba." But her opponent, Miss Liu, tearfully pulled a few wires. Result: the day before election, Miss Li's name was scratched from the list of candidates. "I'm so mad!" quivered Miss...
Hearst First. When the Sun set, its circulation was 305,000, a 45,000 drop since September, when it shrank to a tabloid. The Times has 468,000. Field hopes the Sun & Times will keep a total of 650,000 a day, second only to the Trib's 1,000,000. "From now on," a Field executive chirped hopefully, "we'll concentrate on Hearst,* and get at McCormick sideways. " His optimism was not contagious. Marshall Field, his pleasant smile and soft voice gone for once, snapped: "I have nothing to say-on or off the record...