Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Down & Up. On a nationwide basis, there is no doubt that demand for credit has fallen off considerably from the boom-time peaks, as industry has cut expansion and merchandisers have reduced inventories. Business loans at leading New York banks fell by $235 million last week; Chicago dipped $38 million, though both areas are still ahead of 1957. In Detroit, where layoffs have pushed unemployment to 12.4% of the labor force, bankers report that they have more money than business. Boston bankers say the same...
...ordinary winter's day in Petrograd. There was neither sun nor wind, nor the specially translucent "Petrograd air." A heavy snow, long since fallen and not swept away, lay in the streets and on rooftops...
...half again as much as U.S. economic assistance funds for the whole world. But simply because the trade is so large and so vital, minor changes in U.S. tariffs can affect it drastically. The worst-hurt nation currently is Uruguay. Since 1951 U.S. imports from Uruguay have fallen from $102 million a year to about $18 million, mostly because Western sheep raisers in the U.S. got a prohibitive tariff put on Uruguayan wool. Now the Russians, smoothly operating through Dutch importers, have begun buying Uruguay's wool; The Netherlands has become the country's best customer...
Double Header. In Charmes, France, rescuers called a physician to treat Raymond Bralley, 54, who had stumbled in the dark and fallen into a stream, saw the doctor arrive, stumble in the dark, fall into the stream...
...officer of the Academy met her at the Los Angeles airport and took her to her hotel. No flashbulbs, no pressagents; nobody knew who she was and nobody cared. But 48 hours later she had MGM's top brass in a corporate rattle, and into her lap had fallen a tentative offer of the juiciest part the studio had to offer. And how did she do it? She went to a cocktail party...