Word: slump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...until last week was the baseball world ready to face facts. After wheezing along for three months-first because of a batting slump, then a pitching slump and finally a fatal fielding slump-the fourth-place Yankees played a three-game series with the pace-setting Tigers, seven-and-a-half games ahead of them in the pennant race. It was a crucial series: their last chance to wear down the leaders before rounding into the homestretch...
...Antonio, a barber shop, a milkman, four gasoline stations and the ball park noticed a slump in business since Hitler invaded France. Said Phoenix Refining Co. of its 50% slump, "war jitters." Southern Prison Co., having had to raise its bid on a new New York State prison because of war uncertainty, heard that New York State had rejected all bids as too high...
...foods, destined for Latin America; trucks & busses up 47%; electrical equipment up 24%; farm implement exports up 20% to $16,690,000. But all such items fell miserably short of the ten-digit dollar totals needed to snap U. S. capital goods production out of its ten-year slump...
...going into already bulky inventory. The story of the situation was written in the price of steel scrap, down to $16.50 a ton (the pre-war level). Worst of all: after a good fall, Steel's biggest customer, the auto industry, was running into signs of a production slump which, if it materializes, will slow down the consumption of steel inventories at auto plants...
...question mark and the probable weak spot. Fred Keyes failed to connect well at the plate and committed five misplays on the Dixie jaunt. However, with no experienced reserve material in the position, Stahl will be obliged to rely on Keyes to bring him self out of the slump...