Word: slump
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Although the recent financial slump has had a certain effect upon the opportunities of student employment this coming summer," R. T. Sharpe '28, acting secretary of the Student Employment Bureau stated yesterday "the redoubled efforts of the Bureau have kept open most of the fields of endeavor, and have disclosed several new openings...
...There have been many reports that America was planning to extend a huge silver loan. It is a well-known fact that the silver interests of America, as a result of the tremendous slump in silver prices, find it almost impossible to dispose of their surplus stock, not to mention the problem of finding a market for further production. If China should accept such a loan China in effect would be paying for losses incurred by American silver interests...
...school may find that in some of his courses very little effort is needed to make a "C," or perhaps he takes an elementary course when he is actually prepared for one more advanced. The result is a falling off in interest, a loss of valuable time, a slump in scholarly attainment, and the danger of developing lazy methods of thought and study. It is believed that this problem could be solved in part by more flexible methods within the first-year courses. For example, the Student Council Committee on the Freshman Year a few years ago expressed the opinion...
...motor-makers, for their demands stimulate many lines. And, beyond this definite relationship, automobile sales are a sensitive index to the public's purse. As yet the industry has shown no marked improvement from the depression caused by its excess of production on the eve of a business slump. Some dealers still have unwieldy stocks of second-hand cars. Although inventories of the manufacturers and dealers are in the best condition in years and cash reserves are high the industry as a whole is overexpanded. The Automobile Salon (TIME, Dec. 15) forecast the efforts the companies contemplate to court...
...sensitive man who had been swamped by his own anger at the loss of support. Certain it was that his fingers played a new tattoo of worry on the arms of his chair, that his nerves were stretched by the failure of the country to rally sooner from its slump, by Republican reverses in the election, by the natural can't ankerousness of the Senate...