Word: droppings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Compared to downhill skiing, bobsledding [TIME, March 7] is sissy stuff. Top ski runs drop at least 1,200 feet to the mile, and are full of sharp twists and bumps-with no banked turns. Speeds range from 30 to 60 m.p.h...
...conference suggested that this was Harry Truman's way of seeking a "reconciliation" with Congress. There was nothing to reconcile, the President insisted; it was just a simple change in plans to let him catch up on paper work and see all the Congressmen who would like to drop around...
...last great shortage-steel-showed unexpected signs of coming to an end. Steel plants piled up their tenth consecutive week of overcapacity production; there was a drop in orders for such essential products as freight cars. Last week the Department of Commerce took official note of the increased supply. It announced that in June it would reduce the amount of steel allocated for essential uses, thus making another 95,000 tons a month available to everyone...
Overall U.S. production was slackening a bit. The Federal Reserve Board's production index (1935-39 average 100) dropped two points in February to 189, five points below a year ago. The Bureau of Labor Statistics' cost of living index slipped 1.1% between Jan. 15 and Feb. 15 to 169-the greatest monthly drop in nine years (but the index was still 27% above June 1946, when OPA was killed...
...once a week privileged Comrade Hoelvold slips across the border to have a powwow with his friends. The Norwegian government, certain that the U.S.S.R. would make him a cause célèbre at the drop of a warrant, leaves him alone. The army finds him handy as an interpreter in tricky border disputes when a wandering cow or peasant gets lost on the Soviet side. As for the neighbors in Kirkenes-"Damn Communism," they whisper, bowing to Gotfred. "But the Russians could be here in a quarter of an hour. We don't want trouble...