Word: plummet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...choice is free to marry, she does her own proposing, pouncing on a social-climbing old rake who had won her heart by pinching her at 14. She gets her man but loses her fortune: the elder Montdores strike her from their will and seem to plummet, from shock, into old age. Author Mitford is no woman to let her story stop there. With 80 pages to go, she rushes in scented, scintillating Cousin Cedric, the new heir from Canada, to charm Lady Montdore off the shelf. A face lifting, some rigorous massage and the trick of pronouncing the word...
Radiomakers, who had seen sales plummet, were saved-and then some-by television. Typical example: on a sales rise of 41%, Philco boosted its earnings 51% to $2.4 million...
...limit fixed by the Committee. To skimp the theater would be inexcusable. It should be a theater, not an auditorium--a theater with at least 1500 seats, adequate dressing rooms, a modern stage, and a projection booth and other technical facilities. Without those qualities its usefulness would plummet downwards, negating the effects of economy...
...high in the last six years, cracked last week. Down, with a resounding crash, tumbled King Cotton. On Tuesday cotton futures fell as much as $2.05 a bale. Next day they flopped $10 a bale, the maximum under exchange rules. In the next two days, prices continued to plummet, $10 a day. On Saturday, the panicky New York Cotton Exchange closed. Chicago and New Orleans followed suit...
Sinek is confident that the demand for block ice will not plummet in the face of a postwar spurt in mechanical refrigerator competition. He believes there is room for both. He points to the fact that 43% of his business is helping to supply ice to the 140,000 U.S. refrigerator cars (now carrying more than 1,000,000 carloads of foodstuffs a year) in which, he says, mechanical refrigeration is unsatisfactory. Another 40% of his business comes from commercial users of block ice (hotels, restaurants, stores); from maintenance of cold storage, air-conditioning systems, railroad passenger-car cooling, water...