Word: slumping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crimson victory today, coupled with the fine showing Coach Bruce Munro's squad made on its early Southern trip, would mean that the 1952 team was merely victim of a mid-season slump...
...Supplies, from the pilot plants first built by the big chemical companies (Du Pont, Union Carbide, etc.), were so limited that few customers could get suits. Last week, for the first time, the suits were available in goodly quantities. Result: merchants, whose clothing business had been in a marked slump, found customers crowding their stores with a curiosity faintly reminiscent of the onetime rush for ballpoint pens...
Secretary Anthony Eden, back in his old parliamentary form after what seemed a long slump. Crisp yet relaxed, Eden mimicked Labor's Herbert Morrison with a skill that Eden's country-house friends sometimes see, but fellow M.P.s rarely do. By the time he had finished his rollicking imitation of Morrison, in 1948, demanding and getting the guillotine to push through the nationalization of steel, the fight was over. At 5:45 a.m., the guillotine motion was adopted...
...Carbon's sales rose $6,000,000, but its net fell 20% (to $23 million). Du Pont's sales were up $2,000,000 and the net was "substantially" off. Said President Crawford H. Greenewalt: "The seller's market . . . is ... a thing of the past. .. The slump in textiles affects Du Pont most seriously...
Textiles. American Woolen, despite a 16% rise in sales, was hard-hit by the slump. It did not report its actual losses, merely put them at $895,000 after tax carrybacks, v. a profit in the 1951 quarter of $1.1 million...