Word: glut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Similar plans are under consideration for disposal of student's furniture at Harvard since a disastrous glut on the market may ensue if all men try to sell their belongings at once. At present a committee drawn up by the Student Council is investigating several alternative plans which may be proposed to University authorities...
...Meanwhile Claude Wickard suggested a stopgap: let them eat cheese and thereby ease the Government-subsidized glut in the cheese market...
...Government buying is heaviest in ham, corned beef and other cured meats. The public will have to learn to eat more fresh pork and like it. Curing facilities are limited, so there will be a glut of fresh-killed pigs when the fall crop of shotes comes to market in October...
Last week the amazingly efficient harvester-thresher machines were moving north, from Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas, adding more grain to the glut. The year's crop was expected to hit 900,000,000 bushels. Grain men figured that this, plus the 630,000,000 bushels carried over from last year, would be enough to supply the whole U.S. for two years, without putting another seed in the ground...
...colleges at the ends of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century. By 1930, these factories of liberal teaching were turning more than 1,100,000 men off the curricular assembly lines, and 1,000,000 more from the mushroomed vocational training programs combined with them to glut the job market. With more college men and fewer jobs, the liberal arts enrollment that had jumped 468 per cent since 1900 had come to a virtual stand-still by 1940. The war will continue to absorb college materials. And the middle class, which has always supplied the greatest proportion...