Word: droppings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Well," I interrupted hesitantly, "should I just drop this other girl...
...Weeks, foresaw a lull in business expansion, but predicted that business will continue at a high plateau through most of 1958, though it might slip 1% or 2%. Plainly, the stock market, influenced by Wall Street's pessimism about the business scene, has already discounted a much bigger drop in business than any economist or businessman could foresee...
...Also eying the U.S. farmer last week: the Census Bureau, which reported a farm population drop of 1,861,000 in a year. Part of this "substantial" loss represented farmers voluntarily leaving the land, part was caused by cities pushing out their boundaries to include farm land. New farm population total...
...return to rationing and price controls. Replied Erhard: "We must let prices fluctuate. They will settle down." As a precaution, he drummed through a law making punishable the excessive raising of prices. On Christmas Eve, taking a professional's flyer in consumer psychology, he predicted: "Prices will drop in the spring...
...honest man, but everyone knows he is being sued for taxes." Actually, both Garcia and Yulo are considered personally honest. A rarity among veteran politicians, Garcia has never been accused of enriching himself in office. Even opponents have conceded that suave, handsome Yulo is "a clean drop of water in a pail of dirty Liberal mud." Both are profoundly pro-American, but Yulo emphasizes his business experience as equipping him best to deal with the nation's teetering economy. "If you elect me, I promise to treat you as kindly as I do the laborers on my estate...