Word: slumping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clearly unwilling to accept the notion that where there is smoke there is cancer. Although scientists keep on diligently assembling statistical data on the connection between cigarette smoking and lung cancer, the American tobacco industry has bounced back from its 1953-54 slump, is puffing contentedly over big sales and expansion plans. See BUSINESS, Complete Recovery. One reason why Americans are smoking again more or less fearlessly is that they see safety in filters. Starting from practically nowhere, filter cigarettes have now taken over nearly a third of the U.S. cigarette output. Are the filters really any good? Scientists insist...
Yankee Bums. Finally, when a slump hit New York in 1857, the Tribune started cutting back on all foreign coverage. Though kindhearted Editor Dana still gave them hackwork writing jobs. the comrades were convinced that they had been betrayed and exploited: "Diese Yankees sind dock verdammt lausige Kerle [Those Yankees are damned lousy bums]." Marx's last signed dispatch appeared in the Tribune in December...
January and February production figures for the auto industry, released in Detroit last week, solidly documented the comeback of Chrysler Corp. and the slump in General Motors. Jubilant Chrysler announced that Plymouth was now back in third place, which it lost to Buick in 1954. For the first two months of 1957, Plymouth turned out 128,228 cars as against 100,274 Buicks. For Chrysler President Lester Lum ("Tex") Colbert, that was only part of the good news. Every car in the Chrysler line showed substantial production gains. Overall Chrysler car output in February was up 63% over...
...other hand, Republican farm politicians, who see a congressional election coming up in 1958 with no Eisenhower on the ticket, feared that the downturn in parity indicated that the farm slump has still not hit bottom. They also saw a risk that null relatively good hog prices will stimulate an oversupply of pork in 1958, that a 4% increase in cattle now in feedlots will mean lower prices for quality steaks and roasts this fall, that current low prices for eggs (7½ a dozen under last year at the farm) will continue, and that the price supports under dairy...
...experts who follow the letters have noted little change. At the end of 1956, for example, most market letters touted steels and airlines as good bets for 1957; as it turned out, these stocks, many of them blue-chips, suffered some of the biggest losses in the current market slump...