Word: gloomed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...began, many economic prophets, both abroad and at home, publicly predicted an early U.S. recession or depression. But by year's end, despite the soothsayers' continuing gloom, the facts were plain: instead of a slump, the U.S. had racked up the greatest business year on record. Americans made more money and provided more things to spend it on than ever before. With only 7% of the world's population, the U.S. turned out 65% of the world's manufactured goods...
...gloom, that has encompassed auto dealers around the country for several months settled in Detroit last week. This time it was not just the independents who were being hurt. Chrysler Corp., hard hit by the slow cleanup sale of its 1953 cars, laid off some 9,200 workers. Nash has already announced an eight-day shutdown to help dealers trim inventories; Studebaker is shut down until early next month; Hudson and Packard cut their work forces. Still unaffected are General Motors and Ford Motor Co., both of which are planning higher output of their cars in the first quarter...
...great delusion began innocently enough in 1691 in the little town of Salem Village along Massachusetts' north shore. To escape the gloom of a dreary New England winter, the young girls of the neighborhood began to gather in the evening at the home of the local minister, the Reverend Samuel Parris, who had several children of his own. The chief object of their attentions was the Reverend's servant, an aged West Indian Negro woman named Tituba. To those impressionable children from austere Puritan households, Tituba told romantic stories of the colorful land of her birth. All through the winter...
Paint Every Two Years. For all its fiscal stability, Portugal is still a poor country where initiative withers in the gloom of resignation. The people who grow Portugal's olives, make its port, strip its cork, net and pack its sardines, mine its rich wolfram ore deposits, live in limpidly beautiful villages with white-painted cottages (a 1949 Salazar decree requires a new paint job every two years) amidst some of the world's grandest scenery. But Dictator Salazar has never balanced his people's household budgets. Poverty and disease are widespread. Illiteracy...
This week, as election day approached, there was deep gloom among California Republicans. Putting it mildly, G.O.P. National Committeeman A. Ron Button said: "With two good Republicans running against one good Democrat, the chances of a Republican winning are seriously impaired...