Word: slumped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bethlehem Steel may be said to be paying the price of over-rapid expan- sion. After absorbing the Midvale, Cambria and Lackawanna properties, it found that large sums were required to modernize and coordinate them. Meanwhile the steel business has been undergoing a very severe slump during the last few months. U. S. Steel came an even worse crop- per in 1903-4, just after its organization. Bethlehem Steel is just now experiencing a period of the same sort of difficulties, and the company's directors were no doubt wise in resolving to conserve cash at the expense of common...
Most of America's wheat area lies in normally Republican States, while her cotton belt is confined to almost invariably Democratic States. For this reason, a slump in cotton usually leads to strenuous attempts in behalf of cotton by the Democratic party, while wheat depression means disaffection in the Republican ranks...
Townsend, on the other hand, was unable to shut off Harvard hits when hits meant runs. Captain Jenkins emerged from his batting slump with a bang, making three clean hits and scoring the winning run in the tenth. Todd also did yeoman work with the willow, driving out two singles and a slashing two bagger. Gordon, after four failures to hit, lined a single to center in the tenth that broke up the game...
Crimson In Bad Slump...
Since the last game at Princeton, the Crimson nine has settled into a bad hitting slump, losing the only two games played to Brown, 4 to 1 and 1 to 0. Much of the slump, however, can be blamed on the hurling ability of Neubauer and Duggan, the two Brown aces. The team has been hitting much more consistently in practice lately and the Tiger nine will find a more dangerous attack tomorrow than Brown did last week...