Word: losses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sharpest drop since the war. Still, the pace was $1 billion ahead of the average for 1948, biggest year on record. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that manufacturing employment fell by 330,000 between mid-March and mid-April. But seasonal increases in trade and construction offset the loss, and the three-month decline in overall nonagricultural employment had stopped at 43,900,000, about 400,000 below April...
...disaster for son Abraham Livingston Gump, if no great loss to the art world, when Gump's stock was burned out in the 1906 earthquake. "A.L." decided that Western art wasn't everything: he sent buyers to Japan and China to collect Oriental art. Gump's gradually built up one of the finest collections of rugs, porcelains, silks, bronzes and jades that Western eyes had ever seen, and A.L., who was all but blind, learned to judge it all expertly by touch...
When Hollywood's Producer-Director Anatole Litvak and Producer Darryl Zanuck gambled on filming The Snake Pit (TIME, Dec. 20), they knew that it might never be shown in Britain-a risk that could make the difference between profit and loss. They took the long shot that the movie would get by the British censorship ban on scenes within insane asylums. Last week, the gamble began...
Since Rouner has already put in some time in the varsity boat, and since Iselin rowed behind him last year, the Crimson should not be too hampered by Curwen's loss, provided Iselin is back at normal strength. In fact, the loss of a key man may even act as a psychological boost to the Harvard boat, which might have run into the problem of overconfidence had they faced Cornell at full strength...
...loss of recognition means that the Wallaceites will no longer have official standing in the university. They will not be able to meet in campus buildings or otherwise use campus facilities...