Word: slump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...horses pay $350 a week (adjoining bath) or $400 (private bath) for a thorough beautification at the "farm." "You should see the old hags that come to us, and we make of them something beautiful," says Miss Arden. "I don't think women should be sloppy or slump down into themselves and deteriorate. They should stretch - like a horse does...
Last week, the market barely shivered at something which has caused a slump before: the prospect of a margin boost...
...middle of last week, the New York stock market seemed to be over its V-E day jitters. The slump, which began March 9 when U.S. troops jumped the Rhine, seemed to have hit bottom. For six days, stocks had climbed slowly. Then came the news of the President's death...
Near the Rocks. By 1915, when Ferguson was president, the yard was building warships so fast that 20% of the tonnage with which the U.S. entered World War I, from destroyers to battleships, came from Newport News. Yet in the postwar slump the company almost went broke. It squeaked through by making freight cars, turbines, bridges, marine paints and even street signs, till orders for ships began to trickle in again. Fortunately the well-heeled Huntingtons, who sold out only five years ago, regarded the yard more as a family institution than as a business, let Ferguson pour much...
...majority of dopesters stood on firmer ground. Their theory: the slump was mainly an investor's psychological reaction to the ominous Washington mutterings that something drastic be done to curb the rising prices of securities...