Word: due
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Take the money," the cop advised after due deliberation. "He means well...
...Stafford Cripps of Britain's export-or-die program, "we shall come a cropper in a year or two." The export goal, 175% of 1938 volume, had looked close last July: exports were up to 120%. But by November they had slipped to 117%. And last week, due to lack of coal, the export program was well on its way to coming a cropper...
Miss Anderson's childhood seems to have been as untroubled as is possible to Negro Americans. In part, this was due to the circumstances of her birth, family, and natural gift. In part, it was due to the calm with which she surmounts all unpleasantness. If there were shadows, she never mentions them. Perhaps the most characteristic fact about her childhood is that Marian disliked bright colors and gay dresses as much as her sisters loved them...
...industry knows that it is due to go through an economic wringer. Furriers made the most of the easy-money period during the war and immediately afterwards. When OPA controls came off, prices of luxury furs doubled; medium-priced furs went up 50%. The buying rush has come to an abrupt end because of 1) the unseasonable warm weather, 2) fur imports from abroad, and 3) buyers' resistance to the high prices...
...musician, Bill Karzas' success is partially due to his knack for picking bands people like. Says he : "I know good music when I hear it, just the same as I can't cook but I know good food when...