Word: slumping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shakeup. Ford also denied the possibility of a slump: "How can you be pricing yourself out of the market when your car is selling in used-car lots at a premium of from $500 to $1,000?" But Ford's own figures showed that each new price boost caused a significant shakeup in orders-with prospective Lincoln buyers shifting to Mercurys, Mercury prospects to Fords, Ford customers to used cars...
...week's end the Sox had won 43 of their last 60 games. The experts could think of nothing except fire or flood (or maybe a slump) that would keep them out of the World Series. The tipoff on Red Sox power and depth: when their batting star, Ted Williams, was benched recently with a bad back, the club won 13 out of 15 games. Said Joe McCarthy last week, with the air of a man saying all there was to say, '.'You got to lose some ball games during a season and we happened to lose...
...last January when Wallace announced his presidential candidacy, was down to 80,000 and would probably slide lower. The circulation campaign that helped bring in new readers has been dropped; it cost too much. Said Publisher Daniel Mebane: "We've been having a spring and summer slump which is somehow more than normal...
...Cleveland, the big question of the week was: "What's the matter with Bob Feller?" The great man, whose pitching arm commands baseball's highest pay ($87,000), had lost five straight. The guesses ranged from a "temporary slump" to "natural deterioration" after a dozen years. Said Feller himself: "I'm not going to answer questions like that. I'm not going to throw gasoline on a fire that's going like hell anyway." He canceled all outside activities, including autograph parties at stores selling his book, How to Pitch. This week against the Philadelphia...
...billion, reaching an annual rate of $209 billion. In some lines which had felt a sag in sales, strange and wonderful things were happening. A few weeks ago, for example, some home appliances were in the doldrums. But when the Iron Age set out to probe the slump last week, it was flabbergasted: demand had picked up so much that manufacturers were again talking up allocations to their dealers...