Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Congress, amid cries of crisis and warnings of impending catastrophe, only a few weeks ago rushed through authorization for Benson to buy potatoes and channel them to Government-supported outlets such as the school lunch program. While potato consumption in the U.S. has fallen off slightly, production has gone up, from 349 million bu. in 1952 to 374 million last year. Benson thought that to resume Government buying of potatoes would only compound the problem by raising the incentive for big plantings, thereby increasing the surplus...
...generations born before 1890, 35 percent of women were chaste when they married, while in the generations born after 1910, the proportion has fallen to 32 percent," he said...
...boys scared into the Air Force four years ago, during the Army's tough days in Korea, will be getting out this summer, and they aren't being replaced. The Air Force has fallen behind in its enlistment quotas for the last three months," McNamara added, "and it looks as though something will have to be done...
...President and General Manager F. M. (for Francis Marion) Flynn acknowledged that there was trouble.* To the News staff and others he reported that the "decline is a major reason for concern." With every price increase in the paper (from 2? to 3? to 4?), circulation has fallen off, and increasing costs have tended to catch up with income, thus cutting the News's fat profits. The eleven-day Manhattan newspaper strike also cost the paper well over $1,000,000 in ads and lost the News readers it never regained. But if the News and General Manager "Jack...
...where children learn simply by listening to their teacher ; from then on, they learn from books. In St. Louis, the teachers chose 100 youngsters whose basic deficiencies hinted at trouble as their studies got harder and more formal. Though none was really "backward," i.e., below average I.Q., all had fallen behind because of illness, or too much study too early. Some, because of their failures, had also become problems in the classroom...