Word: seasonale
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If the drop in consumer demand had brought a buyers' market in textiles, electric appliances and many another line, it was also bringing something like a buyers' market in labor. There was a sharp rise in the number of jobless in some states. The layoffs were also caused...
There were layoffs in the textile, clothing and shoe industries, all hit by a slump in sales. Makers of building materials (plumbers' supplies, structural steel, etc.) reported greater-than-seasonal layoffs, indicating a drop in building next spring.
Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder disagreed. At a credit conference in Chicago, Snyder told 1,083 representatives of the American Bankers Association that "business apprehension," which "is getting to be a seasonal affair," had, in effect, already put a damper on overbuying, overborrowing, and overexpansion. There was no need...
The Almanac goes to press before any of the usual seasonal signs appear: the nut stores of squirrels, or woollybear caterpillars (TIME, Nov. 8). Mr. Weatherwise just hauls off and predicts.* How in tophet does he do it? This week, in the New York Times Magazine, Almanac Publisher Robb Sagendorph...
The customer was approaching kingship again in more fields than retail trade. His unwillingness to buy overpriced houses had caused new construction to fall off 12 %-more than seasonal-in October. And many high-priced houses had had "for sale" signs on them for months. Some housing materials might soon...