Word: slump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slump, the Freshman hockey team fought...
...restrictions on distilling had been turned down by Congress, appealed directly to the liquor industry to limit itself. But the distillers weren't impressed. They knew that preliminary estimates on the 1948 wheat crop were so favorable that last week the grain market had a severe slump (see Col. 3). They could quote Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson's own optimistic testimony (on the European Recovery Program) that grain supplies were ample. They could point to foreign distilleries using grain for whiskey (for export to the U.S. for dollars...
...whose leading businessmen had underwritten, willingly or grudgingly, all the expenses (the management got all the profits under the "standard" contract). That year, 30 million people crowded into the big brown tents and it looked as if Chautauqua were going on forever. The following year it went into a slump from which it has never fully recovered...
...Elizabeth, he gave the Council on Foreign Relations a lucid lecture on Britain's "concealed inflation" (the Crowther view: an oversupply of demand) and its inevitable end ("we are disconcerted now by the boominess of the boom, as we shall be equally disconcerted by the slumpiness of the slump"). In the next seven weeks he will talk, look and listen his way across the U.S. "to see when the 'crack' is coming, to see who the next President will be, to find out how firm the Marshall Plan...
...Electric's 3 to 24.5% cut in prices, and a drop in radio sales. Since war's end, the industry had turned out more than 34,000,000 sets-almost one for every U.S. family. This year radiomakers expect to produce only 12,000,000, and the slump has already caused 40 radio plants to close...