Word: fewer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Since fewer meals will, presumably, be taken at the Dinning Halls, I find it very singular that the average, and hence the total, charge per person should rise rather than diminish: in other words, that the Dining Galls management either cannot deal accurately with figures or does not wish to, two alternatives which one is equally reluctant to accept. Harold P. Furth...
...most studied estimate of the future came from Roy Wenzlick, the house-building industry's top economist. Said he: "You will build between 7 and 10% fewer dwellings than in 1948. I expect the total . . . will be 850,000." Wenzlick also predicted that construction costs will drop slightly in a few months, a little more later in the year, and then level...
...market in cars fast approaching, K-F's General Manager Edgar Kaiser, Henry's nimble-witted son, knew he had to get his costs down somehow. Last week, he announced a $2,088 utility car, $136 cheaper than other K-F cars (it has no chrome and fewer frills). The utility car is a combination car and truck which K-F hopes to sell to small tradesmen, farmers and sportsmen. The rear seat folds into the floor and there is a station-wagonlike gate in the back...
...wool on hand, about 60% of it the finer type raised chiefly in Australia and used in worsteds. Wool men feared that the surplus would take 13 years to work off and prices would tumble. Demand did fall for the poorer wool used in making soft fabrics, which fewer & fewer buyers wanted. But everyone wanted hard worsteds. The unexpected demand cleaned out the fine-wool stockpile (but left the U.S. with a stockpile of low-grade wool) and caused demand to run far ahead of supply...
...assorted hucksters who hover around Mem Hall exits to bargain for signatures, money, and political souls of fatigued registrants will be fewer than the number present at fall Term Registration, but they'll be there...