Word: gloomier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With sales down about 25% from last year, dealers' stocks of unsold new cars stand at an estimated 900,000, a disturbing 167,000 above last year. Gloomier prophets are predicting sales of only 4,800,000 cars this year, v. 5,982,342 in 1957. The more optimistic feel that the unusually hard winter weather helped cut sales, and that balmy spring airs will bring an upsurge...
...undergraduate concentrator is in a somewhat gloomier position. After the requirements have been fulfilled there is very little room for electives (honors and non-honors candidates alike take six courses, almost all full courses), which is just as well, because the Department does not offer very many electives. Although an undergraduate occasionally can enter a graduate course--there is a Freshman in Professor Piston's composition seminar this year--most are restricted to a very small selection of courses...
...slightly for the year, and Chrysler of Canada announced that it would operate only one shift a day during the 1958 model year rather than two. Steel production was a little below last year's rate, and newsprint manufacturers last week announced plans to cut back. Reflecting a gloomier outlook for earnings and dividends, industrial stocks sagged...
...Little, Brown; $3.95), is a report on that lost time when the grapes were always plump in the hothouse and no butler ever stole a spoon. Instead of telling the gloom of aristocrats obliged to do without servants, English Novelist Ruby Ferguson, 57, resourcefully chronicles the even gloomier situation of servants who have run out of aristocrats. Her story about the decline, fall and resurrection of Edward Shrewsbury, the perfect butler, is calculated to make envious many a lady novelist who has never thought of using butlers for any purpose but getting characters in and out of doors...
Tory second-guessers were quick with explanations: poor local organization, the natural apathy of Conservative voters when their party is securely in power, a purely parochial resentment against national headquarters for bypassing a favorite son in favor of an outsider. But underlying all such glib alibis lay the gloomier suspicion that the Tonbridge vote reflects a growing dissatisfaction with the Tories among Britain's hard-pressed middle classes, who are feeling the pinch of inflation...