Word: lagged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...families told pollsters that they plan to plant that plot as soon as they can get it plowed up. But even this addition would still make the total 2,000,000 short of the goal, and 500,000 less than the number of gardens actually planted during 1943. The lag was chiefly in New England and Mid-Atlantic States. But there was one hopeful note. Surveys showed that many of this year's gardens are larger...
...fact, high price for spot cotton, which a fortnight ago climbed above 21? a lb.-a 15-year high-was the result of a boost in the parity price, and Lend-Lease. In the past month Lend-Lease bought 330,000 bales for immediate shipment. The lag in futures quotations reflected the pessimism with which traders and cotton buyers view the future...
Despite a last-minute lag in interest, the three civilian Houses went almost 500 per cent over their quota in the Fourth War Loan drive which ended Wednesday at noon. The inter-House competition was swept by Lowell, which rolled up a total of $7,610.60 to more than double the total of second-place Adams and to go almost $660 above the combined totals of its two rivals...
...Negro Problem, he concludes, is grim but not hopeless. It "represents nothing more and nothing less than a century-long lag of public morals. In principle, the Negro problem was settled long ago; in practice, the solution is not effectuated. The Negro in America has not yet been given the elemental civil and political rights of formal democracy. . . . This anachronism constitutes the contemporary 'problem...
...speed, altitude and trail (air and ground lag) had already been set on the sight indicators. As the target came in view, Arpaia's problem was to calculate in a flash the correct dropping angle, make this final adjustment. Then he hunched tensely over the rubber-padded sight telescope, deftly fingering the control knobs. The target crawled across the sight until the two cross hairs were directly on it; at that moment Arpaia engaged the synchronizer and the sight did the rest. A string of white-painted bombs hurtled from Mischief Maker's belly. As they...