Word: slumping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chryslers could be had with only a few dollars worth of extras (v. a postwar average of about $280 worth for all cars) while Packards could be bought "bare" (without accessories), a sign that the market was down. And across the U.S. used-car dealers were suffering their worst slump since...
Automakers brushed off the slump. They thought it was due to 1) a normal seasonal decline, 2) the revival of credit controls in September and 3) the wait for new models. In fact, General Motors last week was so confident of renewed demand that it thought it safe to boost prices $50 to $100 on 1949 Buicks and $54 to $112 on 1949 Cadillacs...
...Jake") Powell, 39, rough & tumble onetime outfielder for the New York Yankees and Washington Senators; by his own hand (automatic pistol); in a Washington police station while being questioned about bad checks. Powell reached his peak in the 1936 World Series when he hit .455, went into a permanent slump four years later after he crashed head-on into a wall while chasing a fly ball...
...Journal was not alone in feeling a sinking sensation. The Audit Bureau of Circulation, the admen's statistical bible, showed that the Saturday Evening Post and McCall's had also fallen below their circulation bases for brief periods during last spring's newsstand slump...
...were about to be dumped on the market-though it and Rice already controlled almost 89% of deliverable rye. The court held, in effect, that this was no cornering move; General Foods was merely following the sound trading practice of protecting its heavy investment in rye against a price slump...