Word: normally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most businessmen, well aware of the danger of exploding inflation and finding first-quarter earnings good, were as anxious as anyone to dampen down. Philip Reed, chairman of General Electric, declared: "Prices . . . should be kept scrupulously down even at the expense of normal profit margins." Manhattan's department store, R. H. Macy, bought space in newspapers to publicize President Jack Straus's plea for retention of OPA "as a necessary check against runaway prices...
...financial positions of the respective institutions would effectively explain why one is looking for more units, while the other has the land and bargains, Fabian-like, with the government, state, city, anybody, to come in and do the job for them. There is no questioning fiscal conservatism in normal times, but pre-war economies plus the traditional administrative lack of concern for the extra-academic welfare of the married student are highly dated policies while a growing percentage of the student body is forced, almost literally, into the cold...
Strained by the demands of normal prewar student bodies, the University's undersized and anti-quated medical facilities will be severely overburdened by record enrollments anticipated for the coming years. But the University, while planning miscellaneous structures such as an edifice to house its botany collections, has given no official attention to the long-lived and steadily growing need for a new medical center, as specifically and repeatedly outlined by Arlie V. Bock, head of the Hygiene Department...
...Hopson, at one time a key man in New York state public utility regulation, Associated Gas was one of the most complex promotional extravaganzas of all time. Now, its capital structure deflated, its subsidiaries reduced by sales, mergers and liquidations from 179 to 46, it was thriving as a normal, healthy holding company. But neither normal nor healthy was Promoter Hopson; jailed for mail fraud and income-tax evasion, he went insane, is now in a New York sanatorium...
...Shanks, an Englishman of infinite patience and notable staying power, made his first bid for fame: he published the value of TT* carried from its normal 3.1416 to 530 decimal places. Several years later he pushed the frontier to 607, and in 1873 retired undefeated at 707. His record, and his figures, were accepted with unquestioning...