Word: droppings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When "January Thaw" opened at the Colonial Theatre two nights ago, there were moments when the audience, with both cars cocked, could hear an option drop somewhere in the recesses of producer Mike Todd's entrepreneurial mind. There were other moments, though, when the comedy reached proportions laughable enough to obscure the tittering of an uninhibited twenty mule team...
...round), hires a boat, or joins a party that wants to split expenses. Then, begoggled and suntan oiled, and supplied with rod, reel and heavy 24-thread line that experts would blush at using, he is lugged to Gulf Stream fishing spots. Captain or mate tutors him in the "drop back" sail-fishing technique (i.e., when a fish hits the bait with its bill as if to stun it, the fisherman counts slowly up to ten, then puts his reel in gear and hauls, back to set the hook...
...amount of money in circulation normally declines the first week in January. But last week, in the biggest drop since 1933, it fell off $150,000,000. There was still the enormous sum of $28½ billion in circulation. Nevertheless, Manhattan bankers sniffed a trend. They suspected that the currency in circulation, which has almost tripled since 1941, may have reached its peak. But the Federal Reserve Bank was not willing to do any predicting. It was well aware that the peak after World War I was not reached till...
Navy Company 3, with five wins and no losses, had better look to its laurels this afternoon against Kirkland and tomorrow against Adams, as a pair of defeats coupled with two Dudley wins (against Company 1 today and Company 4 tomorrow) would drop it from its once secure league lead...
Government spending had dropped as fast as anyone could reasonably expect, from $8 billion a month last May to $3 billion a month in December. There was even talk of something which the U.S. had not had in years, a balanced budget. But those who could see that in 1945 were farsighted. Yet the drop in federal spending had failed to halt the tremendous momentum of the economy. It rolled on like a great water wheel, gushing out money. It rolled into retail stores, movies, bank accounts. And much of it rolled out again to gas up the gaudiest Christmas...