Word: slump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chairs for the House floor. The old wooden seats, explained Capitol Physician George Calver, were so long from front to back that when a member sat back, circulation was cut off at his calves. When he sat forward to ease his legs, he tended to slump down, push his stomach up into his lungs, impairing his digestion and breathing. The new armless models would permit members to recline in healthy, upholstered comfort and, possibly, improve congressional dispositions...
...pass on, the jobs in the lush fields above civil service and below Cabinet rank (among them: judgeships, U.S. district attorneys, key postmasterships). Eventually he would probably take title officially from McGrath. His first goal: to buck for a big registration in 1950, to avoid the off-year election slump that usually hits the party in power. Says Boyle: "A big registration never worries me. I know there are more Democrats than there are Republicans...
...said that he still wanted a $4 billion tax increase. Next day, the House Ways and Means Committee, which originates all tax bills, promptly put the measure on ice. North Carolina's conservative, old (85) Robert L. ("Muley") Doughton, the committee chairman, wanted to wait & see if a slump really was developing...
Though housewives were delighted, businessmen, remembering the 1920 collapse, worried that the commodity slump might get out of hand. Though stock prices fell again last week, putting the Dow-Jones industrials below their post-election lows, there were few other signs of a widespread price drop. The Bureau of Labor Statistics' general index of wholesale prices (food, metals, textiles, etc.) had changed little in a month. The storm, as yet, had blown only on the farms...
...decided drop in food prices has been felt by the Wursthaus, but its proprietors claim the slump is seasonal and food costs can be expected to curve up again in the spring...