Word: dunning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...point in more than four months. The cave-in loosened the prop under retail prices. Most Eastern food chains promptly slashed as much as 19% off some pork prices, 35% off beef. Stores in Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago and points west followed suit, in some cases with even bigger slashes. Dun & Bradstreet's wholesale food price index dropped to its lowest point in 14 months...
Army deserved their win, however. Gil Stevenson and Bobby Jack Stuart were everything the Sunday papers said about them. Dun Foldberg and Charlie Kuyk probably did more than any other men on the field to bottle up the Crimson's offense...
Scrubbed Paintings. The 144 Davids on exhibition in Paris last week had been gathered from all over France, from Belgium, and Manhattan. To prepare for the show, experts had spent almost a year cleaning the dun varnish from French canvases, restoring to them the clear bright colors David had intended. His pen-drawing of Marie-Antoinette on her way to the guillotine, which David was cool enough and history-minded enough to sketch on the spot, was an unassuming example of his naturally incisive draftsmanship and genius for portraiture...
When New York City officials urged housewives to buy substitutes, they found flounder up 10? a pound, salmon up 8?, eggs up 2?. Dun & Bradstreet's wholesale price index of 31 foods jumped 3% during the week to an alltime high of $7.36. The way things were going, some economists predicted that by year's end the U.S. would find its cost of living up another...
Some churchmen cheered when the Supreme Court ruled (Si) for Agnostic Vashti McCollum in her suit against religious education on school property (TIME, March 22). Others, however, were not so sure there was anything to cheer about. Among them were 28 top Protestant leaders, including Bishops Angus Dun and William Scarlett, and Reverends Reinhold Niebuhr, Harry Emerson Fosdick, Henry P. Van Dusen and Douglas Horton. They issued a statement deploring the Supreme Court decision, believed that it would "greatly accelerate the trend toward the secularization of our culture." In the current issue of Christianity and Crisis, Professor John C. Bennett...