Word: droppings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plots crossed ideological lines; they were against rightist regimes in Nicaragua, Honduras, the Dominican Republic, against leftist governments in Cuba, Guatemala, Venezuela. At hand in the U.S. were stacks of surplus guns, and plenty of adventurers, unemployed fighter pilots, aerial gunners and combat infantrymen who would fight at the drop of a dollar...
...plan to spend nearly $1,000,000 in an advertising campaign intended to regain silk's lost prestige with American women. This should help. But drastically lowered prices, barred until the end of the year, may be the only way to move the stockpile. Then the bottom may drop out of the retail price of silk goods...
...other effects take over. As the giant sound waves rocket around the room, White and his assistants feel their eyes go out of focus. Their muscles jerk and their jaws drop...
This week auto production is expected to drop to around 50,000, from the 70,000-plus average this spring. With luck, the painful climb to volume production could start again in ten days. But automakers, who had pushed production in the first three months of 1947 to a postwar high of 1,144,526 units, doubted that they would do as well in the second quarter...
Returning to the baseball scene, Johnny Young survived a troublesome third inning to pitch Eliot to its crucial win over Leverett, while the Bunnies went on to drop the other end of a doubleheader to Adams House, 9 to 4. Elight runs in the last of the third aided Gold Coast hurler Charlie Holt to Victory. Wednesday, Leverett was more fortunate in edging Dunster, 4 to 1, behind the one-hit pitching of lean and hungry Norm Cameron, Dudley defaulted to Adams in an earlier game yesterday afternoon...