Word: lulls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boom about over? After a summer lull in public speculation, the pundits took up the question again...
After the summer lull, retail sales had picked up sharply and U.S. department store sales last week showed a 16% gain over the same week last year. This was partly due to an extra shopping day this year. But it was also due to the enormous demand kept up by industrial employment, which is still on the rise. It reached a record of 52,801,000 in August, some 350,000 above the previous month. (But total employment fell because of the seasonal midsummer slack on farms.) In the face of all this, it looked as if the U.S. could...
...effective buyers' strike against the stratospheric prices. Along with higher wages, consumers had more liquid assets than ever to spend ($130 billion in Government bonds and bank accounts alone, according to the latest Federal Reserve Board survey), and were spending them. In place of an expected midsummer lull, retailers reported that the dollar volume of sales across the U.S. last week was up 6% to 10% over last summer...
There was one lull before the big political storm. The major candidates went to suburban Rosemont for a "purely social meeting" at the home of Martin W. Clement, bony, white-haired president of the Pennsylvania Railroad...
...next day, they went on to place second to M.I.T. in a hexagonal meet for the Greater Boston Dinghy Trophy. These races were followed by a slight lull in winning activity, the sailors dropping to a fourth place out of eight in the Sharpe trophy competition at Providence. M.I.T. again plowed home with a first, followed by Brown and Yale...