Word: slump
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Employes of U. S. structural concerns have lately had much opportunity to improve their golf, their bridge or their gardens but not their incomes. With some of the larger builders business has continued to be good but, generally speaking, the building industry has been, and remains, in a notable slump. Last week a Bradstreet report based on building permits in 187 U. S. cities summed up this slump in the form of a concise figure. That figure was 23.4%. It represented the decrease in building for August 1929, compared to August 1928. It meant, roughly speaking, that for every four...
...caused the manganese rate change. His explanation: "The White House wanted it." Even high-tariff Chairman Reed Smoot, incensed at his committee's inconsistency, ironically observed that the market value of U. S. Steel stock had increased "only a hundred million dollars" after the last fortnight's slump precipitated by an increase of the Federal Reserve's rediscount rate...
Last week many a U. S. corporation issued earnings figures for the first half of 1929, showed general increases over the corresponding 1928 period. The first half of the year is almost always better than the second because of the July and August "summer slump." But even with this qualification 1929 promised to be a banner year of bumper prosperity. Of special interest among many earnings were...
...batting average of .280, the fifth best on the team, and the reasons for Coach Mitchell's benching him for so long are a mystery. His return should materially bolster up the nine's offensive power, while Bassett seems due to emerge from his mid-season batting slump...
...University nine, now apparently out of its batting slump, expects to gain its third successive victory when it opposes Georgetown on Soldiers Field at 4 o'clock this afternoon. The record of the visitors is very erratic, but the tendency has been toward good hitting and weak moundwork...