Word: morely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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For lack of steel, Detroit's automakers were forced to lay off 37,000 more workers this week. But except for strike-born dislocations, the U.S. seemed on the mend from the recession. Employment had picked up so much that U.S. officials removed five areas from their "critical" list...
Narrowed Gap. More important, U.S. department-store sales, which had lagged woefully behind 1948, were also on the rise. For the first week in November, although still 2% under 1948 for the U.S. as a whole, they were from 1% to 15% above last year in eleven major U.S. cities...
By January, when $2.8 billion of insurance refunds is paid out to veterans, there would be a lot more money around. Pondering this, along with the Federal Government's whopping deficit and higher industrial costs created by 1949's pension settlements, Brookings Institution's President Harold G...
Instead of that, Labor M.P. and Editor Michael Foot of the weekly Tribune (whose pretty, 34-year-old bride is an independent film producer) thought the government should "use the opportunity presented by the spectacle of the rocking Rank empire to go into the film business itself." Foot wants to...
For more than a year, giant E. I. du Pont de Nemours has been trying to drum up more competition for itself in the Cellophane business-and for a very good reason. The Justice Department had indicted Du Pont (which makes about 75% of U.S. Cellophane) on charges of monopolizing...