Word: slumping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dick Clasby, who had his best day at bat this season with two for two, including a line triple against Bowdoin will catch. Captain Russ Johnson, battling a hitting slump like most of the regulars, will play first...
While rebuilding Barber, Rieber kept his eye on American Republics, founded by the late J. S. Cullinan, one of Rieber's old Texaco bosses. In 1946, after the stock market slump had knocked American Republics shares down to $11.50, Rieber began spending some of Barber's idle cash picking them up. By 1952 he had acquired 33⅓% of the stock for an average price of $25. By so doing, he made American Republics a bigger tail than the Barber dog. Last year the company grossed $22.2 million, netted a thumping $5,200,000 after taxes. Last week...
Combats Sophomore Slump...
Yale administrators felt sophomores too seldom "discuss their work outside class," and established the seminar system last year. Most Eli sophomores are taught primarily in lectures or large groups, which, the faculty feels, attributes to the "sophomore slump...
...most commodities higher than any shortage justified. But the rise stimulated bigger production, which helped knock prices down. Rubber shot as high as 75? a lb. But as soon as U.S. synthetic plants got into big production of rubber at 23? a lb., natural-rubber prices collapsed. Similarly, the slump in the textile industry sent wool tumbling...