Word: slump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...despite all these classic methods of pulling into a batting slump, the Outing Club still managed to outscore its Radcliffe counterpart last Saturday in the annual baseball fest. "We just couldn't seem to make an out; everything we touched got us to first base," said one sad O.C. slugger...
...future of Giannini's empire-founded on the passionate belief that banking opportunity lies with the little fellow's money-seemed bright. From the Strait of Juan de Fuca to the Mexican line, the West Coast was booming, its fears of postwar slump almost forgotten...
...Down. Thanks to its high operating rate in the first half of 1945, the steel industry made up for its sales slump in the second half. And in steel, as in most other industries, the drop in gross was largely made up by a drop in the tax bill...
Immediate objective of the G.O.P. high command is to capture control of the House and perhaps even of the Senate next year. Realistic GOPsters admit that in this battle the state of the U.S. economy will play an important part-i.e., if the U.S. is in a slump or a state of confusion either because of or in spite of the Truman Administration, the job of winning will be that much easier. Their ultimate objective is, of course, 1948. And there the G.O.P.'s great hope is that for the first time in 16 years...
...Slump? For many another corporation, General Electric was typical. For the half year, its profits were $25 million v. $21 million last year. More & more, it was apparent that the big slump, which many had expected to follow V-E day, had not occurred. Last week the Department of Commerce predicted that it would not occur this year. It estimated that gross national product in 1945 will be $199 billion, infinitesimally greater than 1944's annus mirabilis...