Word: slump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Woman's Place. Officials attributed the slump to the country's dangerous conviction that the war is already...
...Swing your hands loosely between the knees and let your body slump downward until the backs of your hands touch the floor. Raise hips. Straighten back. Then your head. Repeat three times...
Kaiser appointed Henry Morton, his labor troubleshooter, to study the problem. But, in a dark week, the only bright spot for Kaiser was furnished by the War Labor Board. It acted to eliminate two of the chief reasons for the production slump: 1) the squabble between management and U.A.W.-C.I.O over a new contract; 2) the jurisdictional tussle between the union and the Navy over plant guards who are both union members and Coast Guardsmen. WLB ordered a contract signed on points already agreed upon and removed the guards, whose status caused the August strike, from union jurisdiction. Faintly encouraged...
...Byrnes's consultant John Hancock, had not intended to make an overall manpower study. At Czar Jimmy's request, he had sat down with aircraft makers* on the bench in Washington's Lafayette Park, and there had worked out a plan to avert a disastrous slump in West Coast airplane production. His recommendations, to set up a labor budget and balance West Coast manpower with production by funneling workers into essential plants, have already been put into effect (see p. 23). But, Baruchlike, he had not stopped there, but had gone on to make many a commonsensible...
...year rhythm in British wheat prices has been traced back 800 years. On the back of this basic cycle rides a lesser one of nine years. Foundation Director Dewey has arranged his own business affairs in the expectation that there will be a boom until 1947, then a slump hitting bottom about 1951-but he emphasizes that each business must discover the rhythm in its own affairs...