Word: slump
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...STEEL SLUMP will soon force 25% cut in the jobless benefits corporations pay to laid-off workers. Reason: corporate funds have been drained to critical point. Since funds started three years ago, $132 million has been paid...
...course, quantity is not necessarily an accurate guide to theatrical health and achievement But 1959-60, although it offered several dreadful shows, concomitantly displayed a generally improved qualitative level, and thus the year sum seemed to be reversing the post-1957 slump...
...Mexico (4): Strong labor, a boom in voter registration and a slump in the construction industry make the difference. KENNEDY...
...current stock market is performing far worse than in other election years. Contrasted with an average gain of almost 7% in the first ten months of presidential-election years, this year's market is down about 15%. Before the 1948 election, the market was sluggish, went into a slump after Truman's surprise victory, picked up again in 1949. In 1952, the market shot up on Eisenhower's victory. In 1956, the market picked up in expectation of Ike's reelection, was hit briefly by the Suez crisis at election time, then picked up at year...
...from $1,395. Nothing Down, 100% Financing!" But true they were. The houses were shell homes-frame dwellings completely finished on the outside, but with plumbing, heating, wiring and interior decorating left as unfinished business for the enterprising buyer. So enticing have they proved that, despite a general housing slump this year, the Jim Walter Corp., the biggest U.S. builder specializing in finish-your-own houses, last week reported earnings up 21.4% to $3,424,465 for the year ending Aug. 31 on shell homes sales of almost $37 million...