Word: slump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under new management, Harvard's Varsity lacrosse team will invade Andover this afternoon in an attempt to snap their three game slump and bring the season average up to the 500 mark...
...last week the prospects were that for at least the first few months of the season baseball fans would see baseball much as usual. To compensate for an inevitable slump in the quality of play, the major leagues decided to restore the lively ball (and home runs) of 1939. To cut travel, each team will make three trips around the league instead of four. To suit swing-shift workers, the clubs will consider playing some morning games...
...with comradeship and loyalty to our country and to one another and if we can make state enterprise and free enterprise both serve national interests and pull the national wagon side by side, then there is no need for us to run into that horrible, devastating slump or into that squalid epoch of bickering and confusion which mocked and squandered the hard-won victory which we gained a quarter of a century...
...fashioned general store may have its renascence this year. That was the talk last week in the retail grocery trade. Since the expected 40 to 50% slump in food sales volume this year may liquidate at least one out of every six of the 580,000 U.S. food dealers, grocers figure their best hope of staying in business is to stock their bare shelves with other types of merchandise...
...allow the gain in industrial output to slump after the war to a figure less of equal to that of pre-war times, we may face many economic complications, including the possibility of a post-war depression, the economics expert said...