Word: slumping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Clasby's loss comes at a particularly unfortunate time, just when the Crimson seemed at last to be out of its long slump. The varsity will still be heavily favored to beat the win-hungry Cadets. But unless Clasby can return--in shape--before the important League games which follow this last breather, the Crimson's championship chances will drop from slim to nonexistent...
...unpleasant early moments, it looked as though the Crimson would not break its slump. At 5:40 of the first period. Dartmouth's Dick Leary stick-handled across the Crimson blue line, and skated easily around the defensemen, who failed utterly to check him. His 30-foot drive caught the corner, and Harvard was one goal down...
Meanwhile, inn-keepers and investors in the ski country were wearing a satisfied expression for the first time in four winters, as they expected enough snow to overcome the resort slump of the last three years...
Died. Clement M. Keys, 75, organizer and first president of Curtiss-Wright Corp. and longtime aviation financier; after long illness; in Manhattan. In the post-World War I slump he bought control of the old Glenn Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co., by 1929 had 1) financed $80 million worth of aviation enterprises, 2) formed the Transcontinental Air Transport, forefather of T.W.A., with Charles A. Lindbergh as technician-executive, 3) helped finance the first trans-U.S. airmail and passenger services, 4) started the first passenger service in China...
...other hand, many businessmen worry less about inflation than recession -not for 1952 but for the years after that. They point out that only arms production kept last year's sales slump from being much sharper. What, they ask, will keep the economy going when all the expansion is completed, and arms spending is cut back from its peak...