Word: slumping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bright little animated-cartoon commercials that charm the viewer into yielding to Madison Avenue's "soft sell." The best of them, such as the Harry and Bert beer ads, come from Hollywood's UPA Pictures, Inc., whose booming output has not only rescued it from the theater slump but spawned branch studios in Manhattan and London. Last week, acting on the obvious conclusion, CBS began showing UPA's cartoon artistry strictly for its own entertaining sake. Aglow with ingenuity as radiant as its Technicolor, the Boing-Boing Show (Sun. 5:30 p.m., E.S.T.) became the first weekly...
...stable for three years, edged up 2.4% to 117.8 on the 1947-49 index. Some of the rise was due to higher food prices, which meant that the U.S. farmer, who often complains that he has been the forgotten man of the boom, was finally coming out of his slump. Thanks to increased consumption and an $8.5 billion Government investment in price-support and soil-bank aid, farm income showed a 4% rise, the first upswing in four years. Yet few consumers felt a real pinch. Workers' paychecks jumped 4% for the year, twice the increase in their living...
After the war was over, most of the military meteorologists shifted to other fields. The Weather Bureau was the only large employer, and although, under Francis W. Reichelderfer, it was considerably modernized, it still had few jobs. Hating to see his beloved science slump to its prewar level, Rossby tried to persuade private industry to hire meteorologists or to contract for special meteorological services. For a while he put his heart into this promotion effort, writing and even answering quite a lot of letters. An important step was to persuade the Weather Bureau to make its Teletype weather data available...
FARM UPSWING is reviving agriculture equipment makers after year long slump. International Harvester will add about 1,000 employees and increase tractor output from present 150 to 290 daily at Rock Island and Louisville plants, which were closed this fall for six weeks. Company's August-October sales hit near-record $337 million, as farm prices edged up (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
CHRYSLER PRODUCTION slump is worrying dealers, who complain that they cannot get enough cars to meet big demand, that Plymouth station-wagon delivery has not even begun. Dealers ordered 350,000 Chrysler cars in first month after introduction of new models, but Chrysler will roll out only 252,000 autos by January. Reason: strikes and production trouble because Chrysler rushed complete redesign of all models in 20 months v. normal lead time of three years...