Word: slump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alfred Rosenberg variety, Peralta plays the same role of racial philosopher i the Peron cabinet as did Rosenberg in the Nazi regime. While sharing Rosenberg's views on Aryans and Jews, he nevertheless believes that Europe is through, that the Continent is "doomed never to return from its slump back into the Middle Ages." The German Gotter-dammerung is complete, now it is the Argentine which becomes the wave of the future. Already sheltering a million Germans and Italians within her borders, including several ex-leaders of the SS and Gestapo, Argentina is preparing under Peralta's direction to admit...
Irrepressible House of Commons Leader Herbert Morrison, wearing an enormous pink rose in bis lapel, best expressed the jubilant, confident mood of the conference. His somber warnings of a future U.S. business slump that might drag the world into depression did not keep him from enjoying the social whirl. He danced the Scottish reel with whoops and jigs, nursed a couple of small Scotches through evenings of gay chatter. "A regular scalawag is Herbert," grinned one delegate...
...Costs, Up Prices. For the first time since the war began, top-drawer mass magazines were feeling the old summer newsstand slump. But giants like LIFE, Satevepost and McCall's were not. Neither were the glamor mags. Street & Smith's Mademoiselle and Charm, Walter Annenberg's Seventeen and Hearst's new Junior Bazaar were selling pellmell. Women's magazines have made spectacular advertising gains this year. So has the Post which picked up 29% while Atlas Corp.'s limping Liberty lost...
...have been due to the coal and rail strikes. Or it may have been the record amusement-hungry crowds that jammed every race track and ballpark. Whatever the cause, there was a very slight slump at U.S. movie box offices during the month. But no exhibitor was either worried or feeling any pinch. So many people were still standing in line for movie seats that the trade described the slump as merely a drop "from super-sensational to mildly terrific" business...
...batting parade with a lusty .368 average, while his teammates Nick Rodis and Bill Fitz, who have been hitting steadily all season, have healthy percentages of .346 and .342. The nine's only other .300 hitter is left fielder Mal Allen, who has risen sharply after an early season slump to his present...