Word: levelling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prospects of plenty-and a buyers' strike-had already made Scotch prices drop from their $10 to $12 Christmas level to around $6. One New York City retailer last week advertised Ballantine's at $5.49, Haig & Haig 5-Star at $5.28. Gone altogether were the tie-in sales of rum and wine...
...years which followed 1922 made the World War I chaos, which the graduating seniors sought to escape, look fairly mild. But in their final year at Harvard, '22 did its level best to attain the three alms of Senator Underwood and the Attorney General...
...this sort of banal jingling, 65-year-old Eddie Guest was hard to beat, at least as far as the Free Press's circulation department was concerned. But in the rival Detroit News, 58-year-old Anne Campbell, a grandmother herself, did her level best...
...Shipments from the U.S., Canada, Argentina, Australia and other grain-exporting countries will have to be much greater than the past year's high level...
...Even so, "the world's available export supplies . . . are too small to provide the additional tonnages needed by importing countries to keep basic rations at the winter level, which itself was too low for comfort or for health and good working energy." That means that the peoples who were hungry last winter will be hungrier this winter...