Word: droppings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Alabama dealer says his sales are off 50%, attributes part of that drop to the boycott. Says he: "If somebody says something about it-even a friend-and you deny it, they just smile at you." Adds W. M. Turner, a dealer in Selma, Ala.: "The criticism of the whites-and I'm sur prised at some of the intelligent people involved-hurts, and we haven't got the Negro trade, so you can see how it is." Ford efforts to combat the criticism have been less than successful. The Memphis assembly plant, for example, began pasting...
Economic boycott is a two-way street, and Negro reprisal efforts are by no means limited to the Montgomery bus strike. A persistent report-as persistently denied -that Coca-Cola bottlers had contribut ed to White Citizens' Councils caused a sales drop around Orangeburg, S.C. (where a Coca-Cola machine in a Negro-owned service station carried a sign saying, "This machine has economic pressure. It is dangerous to insert money...
...third of the cyclical changes in U.S. industrial output between 1919 and 1946. Both the 1948-49 and 1953-54 downturns were "inventory recessions." They were caused by the fact that businessmen, worried by slipping sales, cut back their orders-and thus cut production -far more than the actual drop in sales. In the space of a few months during the 1953-54 recession, there was a whopping $7 billion shift in inventories (from an accumulation rate of $4 billion to a liquidation rate of $3 billion). Last week inventories were high again. They have jumped an estimated $2 billion...
Since about one-half of those enrolled in college drop out after two years, the ex-President calls for "the citizens primarily interested in the education of those young people" to convince the general public that the two-year colleges would be in the national interests...
...paper at least, is the second fastest team in the country--Yale being the fastest, of course. Ohio State has done a 3:26.9 using medley star Al Wiggins as Anchor man, but since Wiggins is expected to swim in other events, the Buckeyes may drop back. Iowa State has done 3:24 in a 20-yard pool, but over the 25 yard length this would be equivalent to about...