Word: scarely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Department stores have already felt the overall slackening of business. Sales last week were 4% under the same period last year, when there was still some Korean war scare buying. The wholesale price index was 3% under a year ago, and just about at the low point for the last twelve months. The drop has already been reflected in retail price cuts in textiles, leather goods and furniture. By spring, other retail prices, which normally lag several months behind, may be down...
...outspoken foe of socialism and of the Truman-Ewing plan for a compulsory national health service, Governor Murray nevertheless lambasted the profession for the 'millions of dollars spent in the last ten years to fight such schemes. "You have been able to scare the very britches off the politicians," he said, "and to date you have been able to fend off the advances of the socialistic trend, but you and I both know you haven't stopped it by any means . . . During all of this fight you have failed completely to rally a militant public opinion to your...
Applications to the three schools have been no more affected by the draft this year than last. Although last spring's draft scare was expected to decrease this year's enrollment, applications have equalled or exceeded last year's totals...
Public anxiety was aroused, he explained, because of recent scare stories abouta giant Pacific small, introduced by the Japanese into Guam and Saipan for food purposes during the war. The Pacific snails multiplied like rabbits but their danger to crops has been over-rated, Clench said...
...million to himself out of Barcelona's fat profits. Spain's Dictator Franco, who would like to get U.S. venture capital to back projects in Spain, has hailed March's capture of Barcelona Traction as "audacious nationalism." It was so audacious it would probably scare U.S. risk capital away from Spain for a long time to come...