Word: slump
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...loan associations and home building. S & Ls provide 43% of the money to finance new homes, put nearly all of their lendable funds into housing. Squeezed by the savings war, S & Ls have been forced to slash their mortgage lending, causing builders and lenders alike to forecast a severe slump within a few months in the already limping housing industry. "Not only are lenders refusing to talk to home builders about plans for this summer and fall," says Executive Vice President Norman Strunk of the U.S. Savings and Loan League, "but they are even cutting back drastically on loans...
...gone ahead in the ninth with a desperate rally of its own. Trailing 3-2, the Crimson picked up one run on Jim Tobin's triple, a walk, and Coach Norm Shepard's favorite weapon, a suicide squeeze. Then Joe O'Donnell, breaking out of a season-long slump, drove in the lead run with a single...
...Grate in Slump...
Grate's 0-for-3 was far more serious. The sophomore shortstop, who started season hitting like George Scott, has been in the throes of a slump the last weeks and was popping feebly to opposite field yesterday...
...Kidder, at number six, finally pulled out of his long, long slump by smashing Brandels, 6 and 5, and Holy Cross, 4 and 2 while shooting a fine 73, And Bob Sinclair filling in for Steve Bergman in seventh position shellacked both his opponents by 6 and 5 scores...