Word: slumping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pitched. Even a high outside ball, if Duke can reach it, will wind up in the leftfield stands. Junior Silliam, who broke in as Brooklyn's second baseman, will probably start in left field. He is about due to start connecting at the plate. Even in a slump he can bunt for a hit; the speed that gets him to first can also get him under those long, tough flies...
farmers really in as bad shape as the figures indicate? Everyone agrees that many farmers are in a squeeze, and that it hurts no matter whether it is called a rolling readjustment (similar to what industry went through in 1954) or a plain, ordinary slump. After years of unparalleled prosperity, the farmer's share of the consumer's food dollar is down from 52? in 1946 to 42?. Farm parity (the index of what farmers receive in relation to what they must pay for what they buy) has slipped to 84, the lowest point since the beginning...
...farmers have managed to hang on to most of the gain. Historically, farm prices have plummeted at least 50% after a war; in the years since the Korea peak, the drop has been only 21%. Furthermore, because so many millions have left the farms, the slump has brought only a 5% drop in per capita income. Farmers who remain have bigger farms, run them more efficiently and are earning enough money to expand still more...
...three-game series with the Indians and tumbled them from the lead. Suddenly, after almost two weeks of league-leading ball the Indians fell apart. Their crack pitchers started throwing games away. Lemon, alone, gave up eleven hits in eight innings. Third Baseman Al Rosen made a miserable batting slump worse by stranding five runners in a game that saw his teammates leave another ten men on base. Gratefully, the Yankees made their lead even larger by knocking over the dangerous Red Sox in three straight games at Yankee Stadium, their last home stand of the year...
...turn, attract more industry to diversify and stabilize employment. For example, in Los Angeles County, 1,576 highly diversified plants (total investment: $500 million) have opened their doors since 1945. As a result, Los Angeles has easily been able to weather such economic setbacks as the citrus slump and the sharp postwar cutbacks in the aircraft industry. In ten years, the Cleveland area has brought in more than 200,000 new jobs and $2.8 billion in new and expanded plants, almost entirely as a result of hard-hitting promotion by customer-hungry Cleveland Electric Illuminating...