Word: slump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...depend less on WPB or politicos than on manpower. Some 25,000 workers are now trekking from the West to the East every month (TIME, Aug. 21). An all-out campaign might stop this migration-but it might also saddle the West with huge relief bills, if a postwar slump comes. Yet, if workers drift back East, the West may lose juicy civilian orders because it has no manpower to fill them. Western businessmen have found no way to straddle this dilemma...
...Louis Browns, who also moved ahead of the Yankees last weekend, had come out of their long slump. Verne Stephens was still leading the runs-batted-in parade and Brownie pitching had perked up notably...
...world, was blitzed to atoms. But London was not to be robbed by a bomb of a tradition it cherished, or of the classics it loved. Fortnight ago, in St. Martin's Lane, a reborn Old Vic opened in a blaze of glory, and helped a theater slump, brought on by the robombs, to turn back into a boom...
...four months the Browns had clung stubbornly to the League lead, despite all predictions of an inevitable slump. On their final Eastern swing, they got by the Yankees and Red Sox all right. Then they hit the skids. In Washington, they made the tactical mistake of taunting the tail-ending Senators. The jeers stung the Senators to life and they won three of the four games. On the way home, the Browns lost four out of six. Back home, they quickly lost another three out of four to the Tigers...
...Department-store sales were 4% over 1943, but merchants were cautious in placing orders for fall goods. The retailers fear: 1) a slump in sales as reconversion forces war workers off high-pay jobs; 2) a buyers' strike against ersatz goods, when production of better-quality civilian goods is resumed...