Word: glooming
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...Josef earned his daily bread this difficult winter. Fifteen European countries, including Germany, have a grim interest in Josef, for their economic revival is closely tied to the amount of coal which he and some 300,000 other miners win from the rich Ruhr mines. In the dust-choked gloom of the pit face TIME Correspondent Percy Knauth talked with Josef, trying to learn why the miners are producing only half as much as before...
...Gloom on the Exchange. Wall Streeters jumped to the conclusion that rising food costs might upset the none-too-steady labor-management peace. The stockmarket slumped, wiping out all of the gains of two months...
...black week and a White Paper deepened Britain's gloom. The Crisis was bad enough; the future as outlined by the Government's report was described by the London Times as the "most disturbing statement ever made by a British government." The New York Times's Michael L. Hoffman went further. He wrote...
Thunderstorm. When Attlee finished his speech, all eyes turned to Churchill, who had been sitting on the Tory front bench wrapped in glowering gloom and a heavy black overcoat. He rose ponderously, demanded the reason for Wavell's replacement...
Partial justification for Clement's gloom was to be found in preliminary rail earnings reports for January. They showed freight revenues up a whopping 21.2% over 1946; but a drop of 39.5% in passenger revenues pulled the roads' net increase down to an unimpressive 6.5%. Obviously, the industry's problem was to jack up passenger revenues...