Word: gloomier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago, A. W. Zelomek, president of the International Statistical Bureau, Inc., took a gloomier view. Recession, he said, is ahead. He foresaw 1949 as "a year of deflation," one which, while not as severe as the 1920-21 postwar collapse, would last longer...
Bolles has traded his early-season optimism for a gloomier view of life. A month ago, he scarcely deigned to mention anything this side of Juen Olympic trials, and his biggest complaint was that the Schuylkill river's torturous course provided hazardous and unfair proving ground for the champions...
...week's end, John McCloy had still not made up his mind. But the longer the Bank's presidency remained unfilled, the gloomier grew prospects for floating the billions in securities needed to finance world reconstruction. Private bankers, lukewarm at best, had now cooled to the whole project. The World Bank's prestige had fallen so low that some Manhattan bankers talked about getting the unissued securities stricken from New York State's "legal list," i.e., the list of securities in which savings banks may invest...
...people are gloomier, professionally and perennially, than the men who run the U.S. Soil Conservation Service. Guests at Princeton's Bicentennial Conference on Engineering and Human Affairs last week heard a habitual prophet of doom: Dr. Hugh H. Bennett, 65, chief U.S. conservationist. In his best doomsday voice Dr. Bennett talked about soil and its abuse. Every decade, he said, there are 200,000,000 more people in the world and less soil from which to feed them. A vast acreage is being ruined each year. Something must be done for the soil...
...profit outlook for the chains is even gloomier. When OPA clamped ceilings on retail food prices the chains' traditional policy of cheap buying and cheap selling savagely boomeranged. Most farm prices have kept right on climbing, while most retail prices have remained moored at their low chain-store levels. Even big volume is no cure-all for such a price squeeze...