Word: droppings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington, Dr. Edwin G. Nourse, pince-nezed chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, gave some reassurance. In his monthly report on the economy, Dr. Nourse predicted that neither the drop in employment nor the decline in food prices would develop into a trend (see BUSINESS). An enormous total of 57,500,000 people was at work. The decline in food prices, he added, was a reflection of last year's bumper crops rather than an indication of a slipping economy...
...while government speakers droned on, Convention President Mercante, who is provincial governor of Buenos Aires and one of Perón's closest friends, met with Peronista leaders. Shortly afterwards, the majority floor leader, Angel Miel Asquia, came out to tell the press that they had decided to drop the proposal to let a President succeed himself...
...Meat. All this meant a still bigger drop in the cost of living, which was precisely what the U.S. consumer had been hollering for. Hogs slumped to within 50? of the OPA level. Cattle worth $28.50 a hundredweight a week ago dropped to $24.50. Retail meat prices came down another 2? to 4?, chain stores trimmed egg prices 6?, wholesale soap came down 6%. Whether meat would continue the fast drop was questionable. Thousands of sheep & cattle had already died in the blizzards on the rangelands, though ranchers were desperately bulldozing paths through the snow to get their animals...
Winter or ice finishing is fine for the casual athlete who can only operate with bursts of energy. The technique, practised wherever there is ice in New England, is to chip a simple hole in the ice, drop a hook and bait into the water. At the other end of the line you attach a wooden bob with a violent red flag on a short length of stick and lay same on the ice next to the hole...
...past several registrations, the percentage of veterans in relation to the entire student body grew smaller. During this spring registration, however, it is doubtful if there was more than a five percent drop below the 41.8 percent ex-servicemen recorded in the total enrollment last September...