Word: droppings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...known that he was anxious to get back to a better-paying job in private life. Other Cabinet shifts were in the wind. At the behest of the President, Secretary of State George Marshall had again & again deferred his retirement. White House aides let the word drop that the President might now reluctantly let him go-and Under Secretary Robert Lovett with him. Among Democratic politicos there was little doubt that the ax was sharp for Army Secretary Kenneth Royall, who had remarked that Harry Truman's re-election was not "essential" to the national defense...
...Komsomoltsy of the Yaroslavl locomotive roundhouse proudly reported that they had already reached their production goals for 1948 and were taking on more. Comrade Ilichev, secretary of the Altai committee of the Komsomol, was in dutch because there had been a drop in membership in his area, and the secretary of another group, in Barnaul, Siberia, had just had his knuckles rapped for organizing a bourgeois kissing game of postoffice one evening. On the whole, however, the jubilee tone was one of Soviet satisfaction. Moscow announced that the Komsomol (for youths 15 to 25) now numbered 9,000,000 members...
Bogged-Down Trucks. For companies whose profits were down, the cause was generally 1) high-priced inventories at a time when prices were dropping or 2) a shift to a buyers' market, which cut sales. Colgate-Palmolive-Peet, for one, reported a third-quarter net of $3.1 million (v. $5.3 million last year) on lower sales. Standard Brands showed a profit of only $787,519, a drop of 49%. With sales slipping, five out of eleven makers of electric appliances reported declines ranging from 2% (for Noma Electric) to 43% (for Bendix Home Appliances). Truckmakers Diamond T and Autocar...
...volunteers will appear at PBH Monday and Tuesday from 12 to 6 p.m. for their blood donation appointments. Some drop is expected from the 226 pledged donors, but drive officials are counting on at least a 200-pint total...
...juniors or sophomores who are interested or think they are interested should drop in at the CRIMSON Building tonight...