Word: droppings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Columbia, meanwhile, has introduced the long playing advantage, which is extremely desirable for classical records. Victor tried to make up for this with a "rapid" changer. Although the drop mechanism of this new changer is extremely fast, the actual break is two seconds longer than on the Webster changers. No matter how much Victor may be able to reduce this break, the advantage of no break at all is always greater...
...time, almost to the minute, that he had crossed its threshold four years before and had been told to call the White House. This time he was not interrupted, and spent 55 minutes with the "Board of Education" crowd, a group of congressmen and employees who drop in on the Speaker for a quiet drink every day after Congress recesses...
...record 1,068,048,000 bu. With good weather and a probable 325-million-bu. carryover from the 1948 crop, the U.S. would be up to its ears in wheat by summer. What with good crops and lower prices, the Bureau predicted, farm income might drop 10% below last year's record of $31 billion...
Banking. Recession-wary businessmen, who are doing their best to trim inventories, have also cut back their borrowings. For the twelfth week in a row, business loans from banks declined, the Federal Reserve Board reported. The latest drop, $277 million, was the biggest weekly decline in history. But total outstanding loans of $14.6 billion were still $197 million higher than last year at this time...
Miss Margaret Bowers, director of the Yale dining halls, announced recently that as soon as food prices drop sufficiently, she hopes that there will be a return to the prewar system of table service. When asked whether food quality will be improved when prices come down, she commented that Yale University buys "the best food there...