Word: slump
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Together with the Pit's slump, wheat tumbled in Winnipeg. Canadian prices have long been pegged at around 50?, a price which because of the depreciation in the Canadian dollar gives Canadian wheat an advantage in the world markets. Last week when the slump in Chicago narrowed the margin of advantage the Winnipeg peg was pulled. In a short time December wheat was selling at 47⅝? in Canadian currency, giving it a 2⅜? advantage over U. S. wheat. How this advantage works is seen in the September export figures. During the month Canada exported...
...must differ with Dr. Holcombe on this point; I believe that the youth of the country is more sensitive to the present slump than are the older people, who appear to sit dazedly by and trust in God and Mr. Roosevelt to wake them up. Youth has looked upon the situation and has divided into two camps--one which has thought the whole thing out and has turned to him who offers the most plausible plan for relief; and another which bleats of its magnificent open-mindedness and blindly rushes into Socialism...
Silk men say that a silk fad sweeps the world about every ten years. Creeping out of the post-War slump, in 1922 the silk industry was whipped to prosperity by a huge and sudden demand for crepe de Chine. It replaced taffeta, which had clung on tenaciously from the billowy era at the turn of the century, as the standard dress silk. When the good news came last month, silk mills had little rough crepe in stock. So great and so urgent was the demand that silk men last week were vainly trying to buy from each other...
While the wolf is now far from McCall's office in Manhattan's gilt-topped New York Central Building, the magazine has not been untouched by the 1930-32 slump. And President Warner has authorized the tactics which succeeded before: spending money on editorial revision. This week the result appeared in McCall's October issue...