Word: droppings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strikes and alarms over prices, tumbled 4.76 points in the Dow-Jones industrial index to end the week at 171.76, a new low for 1947. On the first day of this week, in the broadest market in stock exchange history, it plummeted 5.07 points more, the worst daily drop since last November...
When the department abandoned Generals for non-honors students, it was a frank admission that without universal tutorial standards must take a sharp drop. This is a very serious defect of English as a non-honors field, although the blame lies on present difficulties and the limiting Faculty vote more than on the department. Without the benefits of tutorial, the student is virtually helpless in the face of an overly profuse, but un-integrated, selection of courses...
Curve Down. The latest figures showed a definite reversal of the rising curve of cancer deaths (though not of the number of cancer sufferers) among U.S. white men & women. Last year, reported the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., the cancer death rate among its women policyholders dropped to a new low-78.9 per 100,000 (v. 90 per 100,000 a decade ago). In the past five years, the male death rate had also fallen slightly (from 86.8 to 85 per 100,000). Chief reasons for the reduced death rate: early diagnosis and treatment by surgery. The biggest drop...
...than expected. Though price rises kept dollar volume 10% higher than last year, unit sales were actually lower. Many a retailer, scared by his high inventories, was canceling orders. But the real bellwether was "soft goods" (textile) production. Most businessmen had kept their eyes on it, figuring that a drop in production there would be the first sign of a recession. Last week the drop came (see below...
...because of abnormal demand. But when buyers' resistance began to be felt, manufacturers refused to shave their prices. Their profits were high enough-and demand for quality goods still heavy-so that they could take a chance on shutting mills making sleazy goods in hopes that the drop in buying was temporary. Some even talked of boosting prices of men's suits. But the bitter facts are that goods are not overproduced so much as simply not wanted at current high prices...