Word: slumping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Army and the Red H-bomb, the U.S. nonetheless replies that the Russians are talking peace because they have to. To support this view, the U.S. cites the instability of the Communist dictatorship, the discontent of the satellites, the demands of hungry and aggressive Red China, the slump of Russian agriculture...
...Slump in the Summer. Meanwhile, summer replacement shows were working on the theory that entertainment should be as much fun in hot weather as in cold (TIME, June 27). Unhappily, not a single summer show, including two NBC one-shot Spectaculars (Remember-1938 and Allen in Homeland), has yet risen above a depressingly low level of mediocrity...
Cars & Calories. No one knows why. Some brewers say that they themselves have brought on the slump in beer by preaching moderation. Others feel that it is the natural result of changes in U.S. living habits. Once, the saloon was the workingman's club, where he put away large quantities of the poor man's drink. But now, with more people making more money than ever in history, the workingman is much less inclined to idle over a glass of suds. He has too many other things to occupy his leisure hours: auto trips, sports, do-it-yourself...
...most U.S. cities a buyer can drive off in a new car with little or nothing down, and three-or even five-years to pay. Such practices give conservative dealers the jitters, since the car depreciates faster than it is paid for. They fear that even a temporary slump in employment would touch off a chain reaction of defaults among buyers who have little equity in their cars, thus lose almost nothing by repossession...
...result of the marching mechanization, the U.S. farm-machinery industry is heading for the greatest boom in its history. After a three-year slump, farm machinery sales last week were 15% higher than in 1954. Every firm-Oliver, International Harvester, Allis-Chalmers, Massey-Harris-Ferguson-has dozens of machines on the market to do almost every job under the farmer's sun (see color pages). John Deere alone has machines to do 100 specific jobs and variations on each that run into the thousands. And throughout the industry, engineers are busy devising dozens of still newer machines, not only...