Word: slump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coach Floyd Stahl expects to keep the same revised lineup which proved so successful against Columbia Monday. Gerard Callanan will stick behind the plate, Thayer Drake will remain at short until Jay Gleason snaps out of his hitting slump, and Mort Waldstein will start at left. Waldstein, however, will act as Berg's number one relief. Lou Clay or Bill Parsons will take over the fielding post in case he is needed to pitch...
...Will the public, in so far as it has been buying to anticipate higher prices rather than to anticipate scarcity, quit buying and live for a time on its hoardings when prices are frozen? And if so, how will merchants with large inventories be hit by such a slump in buying...
...dumped last week into the lap of a Congress already laboring with a seven-billion-dollar tax program. Senator Prentiss M. Brown of Michigan introduced the first deferred-pay bill designed to take money away from war workers now and give it back to them in the post-war slump...
Most storekeepers feel that all this is good business. Some of the things they bought (e.g., radios and refrigerators) are already dead ducks. Even if inventories are roof-top high, they expect to sell out long before any post-war slump catches them. But not all retailers are so cocky: giant Montgomery Ward has cautiously set up a $2,000,000 reserve for "price declines." And from visiting British Storeman Victor Coen came another caution note: "Those British retailers who made heavy advance purchases . . . were sadly disappointed...
Suffering a slump after beating M. I. T., the Yardling fencing team lost to Yale 18-9. The Blue took every weapon 6-3, an the Crimson failed to put on an expected into-season apart...