Word: droppings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week talk of a downturn in European business, hushed when Europe's boom refused to bust even during the U.S.'s greyest months, broke out in loud tones. In Rome, officials of the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization warned that the price bottom might drop out of Europe's agricultural market this fall, and in London Britain's cautious Chancellor of the Exchequer, Derick Heathcoat Amory, talked bluntly of "a possible recession in the fall...
...Wolfson group continued to sell until it had cleaned out its holdings. Estimated profit on the sale: $2.5 million. Then, said the SEC, Wolfson began to sell short in the belief that A.M.C. sales would slide and the price of the stock drop. But A.M.C. car sales rose and the stock did not drop; the Wolfson accounts were eventually caught in a short position of about 150,000 shares...
...wants to smell like everyone else at $12 a drop? My husband's after-shave lotion makes me unique among most women I come in contact with, and that at 98? a family-size bottle...
...that while there was "no clear evidence that inventory liquidation is slowing," sales and production have steadied. The history of previous recessions shows that once sales steady, inventory liquidation comes to an end (see chart). Wholesale and retail sales moved ahead in April, are expected to show a slight drop for May. If they hold steady for a few months, economists hope that the cut in inventories will...
...important segments of the nation's economy-production, employment, income, prices, etc. When all statistics are moving up, the diffusion indexes read 100. When all are moving down, the indexes are zero. If half are moving up and half down, the indexes are 50. When the indexes drop below 50, it means the economy is contracting; when they rise above 50, the economy is expanding. The basic 21 are broken down into three groups called 1) the Leading Series, 2) the Coincident Series, and 3) the Lagging Series (see chart...