Word: slump
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Policy. When Depression hit the roads they had a choice of two policies: 1) drastic retrenchment, including wage cuts; 2) normal operation. At President Hoover's suggestion they followed Policy No. 2 "as long as it could be justified." As the slump continued "it became evident that the policy above stated had failed" to restore prosperity. Hence adjustments were now imperative...
...Slump, A summary of newspaper advertising lineage, compiled by Media Records, Inc., last week showed the conventioners how great the slump in advertising has been. In Si cities the first-five-month totals for 226 daily and 113 Sunday papers was 11.4% below last year. The decline of different kinds of lineage was as follows...
...spurred city officials to press on, regardless of local complaints, with a plan for 15 new incinerators to cost $17,375,000. During the War, New York considered plans whereby garbage could be reduced to grease and sold at a profit of $3,000,000 per year but the slump in grease prices ended that idea. Within the year a Boston man nibbled at New York's garbage output with a proposition to dry it out for fertilizer, but nothing came of that. Deep-sea dumping costs the city...
There are signs that the critical market, more variable than the stock exchange, is beginning to raise James Fenimore Cooper, first great U. S. novelist, from the slump into which an unsympathetic generation let him slide. This biography, the first full length one in 50 years, is one of the signs...
...failures of modern life that has worried the Vagabond more than the business depression or the post war madness is the decline, yes and the downright fall, of the theatre. Time was when the old fellow could slump down in his seat and enjoy the full richness of Booth's baritone or the exquisite pathos of Mrs. Fiske's Becky Sharp. But now he is subjected to the baser aspects of free love or human propagation whenever he so much as steps into a theatre...