Word: slump
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hurts Too Much." Some brokers argued that it would take no more than a rise in prices to get the public off its hands and back into the market. Hardly anyone, however, expects a pickup before the end of the year. The only consolation seems to be that the slump is forcing brokerage houses to streamline operations, cut out the dead wood and seek new efficiency. Said one stock salesman: "I got into this business during the boom years. Now for the first time I have to get out and hoof it, and, by golly. I'm learning...
Your factual reporting of the business slump in San Diego is typically denied by the city fathers, whose blind optimism creates the poor business climate...
...public bonfires because they "aroused wanton desires in the minds of the people," are now being sold openly in government commissaries-to foreigners who bring in needed capital. Alcohol tax rates, which were doubled by Park, have now been reduced because South Korea's breweries suffered an 80% slump in consumption in the first six months of this year...
Diets & Balloons. The summer news slump is not readily susceptible to solution. The New York Times's Assistant Managing Editor Theodore Bernstein merely ignores the annual doldrums, secure in the knowledge that the U.S.'s fattest paper always goes on a summer diet: from June to September the Times is ten columns leaner than in the cool months. (The headlines are leaner too. At week's end, the paper's major front-page news story, in column eight, had not supported more than a one-column head since July 26.) Eric Franklin, the Boston Traveler...
...rookie infield would wilt in the summer and with them the whole team. So far this appears unjustified. The team did slip in July, but has now won nine of its last eleven games. Bernie Allen has raised his batting, average to a respectable .267, and after a brief slump Rollins is still hitting...