Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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False Ring. In Chicago, investigators of the theft of a diamond ring quizzed Ann Wiegand, who talked too fast, let the ring drop out of her mouth...
...waste at West Edmond is common to most fields. For lack of storage tanks, pipelines and nearby markets, operators have always "vented," i.e., burned off in flares or simply released, great quantities of natural gas. Aside from the loss in fuel, this practice has caused an even more important drop in underground gas pressure, by which much oil is brought to the surface. In West Edmond alone, venting last year reached an estimated volume of 250,000,000 cubic feet...
...Media might yet run into heavy weather of a different sort. On her first trip, she had carried almost a full complement of passengers but only 887 tons of freight -13% of her capacity. And with the peak of the summer tourist season past, there was a noticeable drop in eastbound passengers. For the first time since the war, there were vacant bookings even on the Europe-bound Queens...
Free Play. The Securities & Exchange Commission finally published the results of its exhaustive inquiry into the causes of last fall's sharp break in the stockmarket. There was no evidence, said the report, that manipulators were to blame. In fact, said SEC, the drop of 10½ points last Sept. 3 was the result of no more than "the free play of different opinions as to when to buy and when to sell...
Ruth's individual record (set in 1927) of 60 home runs in a season. With a golf-like swing, Babe Ruth used to send the ball to towering heights, drop it in the bleachers or loft it over the right-field roofs. Mize, a competent workman with none of the Babe's color and crowd appeal, drills out line-drive homers by main force. This week he was slightly ahead of the Babe's 1927 pace. But to keep up with it, Mize will have to put on a mighty late-season spurt. In setting the record...