Word: due
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...businessman bent my ear for half an hour with his troubles: lack of cooperation from the State Department, the Chinese "squeeze," Chinese undependability, etc. Then I asked him if the city had any future at all. He leaned over, gripped my shoulder and half whispered: "My boy, Shanghai is due for the biggest boom in history...
...Prices. The Federal Government prepared to taper off its $1.8 billion a year program for wartime food subsidies. By next June all payments are due to end, including the whopping $534 million to dairy farmers and the modest $7.4 million to prune growers. Government pencil pushers last week figured out just how much retail food prices could rise when subsidies are dropped. Their figures: milk will go up 1.3? a quart; bread 1? a loaf; cheese 4.8? a lb.; pork 4.4? a lb.; prunes 4.2? a lb.; flour...
...ghost town of Tombstone, Ariz, was having a minor boom. The boom was due to arthritis, asthma and sinus trouble, all of which are still medical mysteries...
...After due seasoning on Wild West stories and his father's football yarns, Doc made his high-school football debut. A rival halfback ran straight over him for a touchdown. By the following year, when he transferred to St. Stanislaus Prep at Bay St. Louis, Miss., he knew how to tackle. On his 14th birthday, he played fulltime for the Stanislaus Rockachaws in New Orleans' Toy Bowl game...
Much for Little. On top of this the market was "thin," i.e., it needed a comparatively small number of buyers to send a stock up. This was partly due to the Federal Reserve Board boost in margin requirements in July. By putting stock trading close to a cash basis, it cut down the number of day-to-day traders, thus reduced the stock in circulation. Example : in one day, the purchase of 800 of Du Pont's outstanding 11,000,000 shares sent the stock...