Word: shaking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then Eduard Benes swore in the new ministers. When the President and the Premier started to shake hands in parting, they found that they stood quite far apart; they had to bend over a long way to make contact...
Three Daring Daughters (M-G-M). Producer Joe Pasternak discovered long ago that charming young people, musical celebrities and double jiggers of relaxed good humor and good will are likely to shake up into a very pleasant musical. He has poured out the mixture, with happy results, quite a number of times (100 Men and a Girl, Two Girls and a Sailor, etc.). But the recipe doesn't always work ( Three Daring Daughters...
...little of some of his colleagues ("Those slobwogs!"). Last year, he won a Pulitzer Prize for his Third Symphony, unplayed for 36 years while the manuscript gathered dust in his barn. After receiving the prize, he granted a rare newspaper interview. When a reporter congratulated him, he refused to shake hands, roared: "Prizes, bah! What do I care for prizes! They are the badge of mediocrity...
Effect. The commodity break posed a big question. Was it the start of a healthy general shake-out of inflated prices, or the ominous warning of a recession? When grains broke in 1920 (see chart), other commodity prices sank with them and threw the whole economy into a temporary tailspin. Before last week's break, wholesale commodity prices (as measured by the Bureau of Labor Statistics) were within 3.5 points of their 1920 peak. The grain prices had gone far above their post World War I high. Though the break had come too fast for official tabulation to keep...
...most businessmen welcomed the drop. They hoped it would lessen the shock of the readjustment in prices that had to come. They did not think it would shake the economy into a recession. Said Morris Sayre, president of the National Association of Manufacturers: "I suspect we are now on our way to taking the cap off the high cost of living...