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Word: droppings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Well," I interrupted hesitantly, "should I just drop this other girl...

Author: By Walter E. Wilson, | Title: Mrs. Star | 11/8/1957 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WALL STREET: Historic Week | 11/4/1957 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Feeling Their Oats | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Engineer of a Miracle | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: After Magsaysay, What? | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

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