Word: droppings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with FHA loan requests up to 75,000 last month-the highest level since May 1950-few builders were crying the blues. Neither were food stores, drug and cigarette makers, many of whom reported record first-quarter profits (see Earnings). The U.S. consumer's personal income had dropped hardly at all. The annual rate of $341.4 billion in March was down only $300 million from February and was $1.2 billion higher than last year. But consumers were cautious. Retail sales of $15.4 billion for the month of March were down, though only 1% v. a 4% drop the month...
Other factors that he put in the "unfortunate" category were the tight money policies of the Federal Reserve System designed to curb the 1956-57 inflation, and a sharp drop in defense spending...
Goldman will drop to fourth, and Fred Vinton and Bill Wood will round out the first six. If Penn brings an extra man, Pete Krogh will face him. Barnaby has not yet decided the pairings for the doubles matches...
...might be a plot to get Yalies to go to classes, though we would guess that Smithies at nine will be little more enticing than 'Cliffies at nine and attendance might drop. It might be a subtle move leading to an enforcement of parietal rules, though this may be too great a break with tradition. But the scheme is probably less grandiose than these, and is probably just another aspect of Whitney Griswold's cultural uplift. Frankly, we had an affection for the old, gross Yale, the Yale that was proud to be uncouth, and we are sorry...
...summer holiday. Mrs. Grey gets bitten by a horsefly and lands in the hospital, leaving the children to manage as best they can without Mum in a nearby pension on the Marne. For page upon page, everything hums along with the summery warmth of semifantasy. Greengage plums drop from the tree with juicy plops, the barges of the Marne glide noiselessly over the sunny water. The owner of the pension, Mademoiselle Zizi, has a rich and handsome young English lover named Eliot, who takes the children for rides in his blue-and-silver Rolls-Royce. Young Paul, the pension dishwasher...