Word: slumping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Candidates should sit on the edge of their chairs to remove the temptation to slump. If they must get up, they are urged "to move slowly to allow the camera time to follow." They are particularly cautioned to "throw your shoulders back and keep your head high and your chin out . . . Always keep your back straight...
...completely satisfied with the victory. While the pitching was good, the hitting wasn't. "We're not hitting the ball," commented Stuffy, "and it's lost us seven games already." The Crimson coach added that he night put Bernie Akillian, who has been the victim of a batting slump, back in left field and bench Al Switzer...
...potato growing. In eight years, the Federal Government spent $542 million supporting the price of potatoes. As a result, farmers increased their plantings just to sell to the Government. Two years ago, horrified at the mountains of surplus potatoes, Congress junked the potato support program. Fearful of a price slump, farmers cut their 1951 plantings 20%, even though the demand for potatoes, freed from the artificially high prices of the support program, was increasing...
Amid all the talk of a business slump, the Commerce Department had some evidence last week that the economy is still growing. In the first quarter, it reported, the total output of goods and services was at an annual rate of $339.5 billion, up $11.7 billion from the full year 1951 and a new record. In the past, increases in the gross national product have been due in some measure to price rises, but this time, said Commerce, with prices stable, the jump resulted almost entirely from greater output and bigger incomes...
Would easier credit end the spring slump that had many businessmen worried? It was still too early to tell, but there were already signs that businessmen, having cut their inventories to the bone, were beginning to end their own buying strike. One furniture maker reported new orders 36% above last year's. The hard-hit textile industry picked up to the point where raw wool prices were on the rise again, and rayon and acetate shipments were up 4½% since March. The wholesale-price average of all commodities turned up 0.1% for the week, indicating a stiffer demand...