Word: slumping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this mean that all U.S. business was in for a slump...
...signs pointed upward. Purchasing agents found that the pickup in orders, which started in September, was continuing. Auto sales have recently been running ahead of production, and the industry expects output to fall far behind sales next month. TV and appliance sales are also pulling out of their summer slump. Department-store sales, said the Federal Reserve Board, jumped 10% over the 1950 level in the latest weekly figures, the biggest rise in six months. And the biggest spending of the arms program-and greatest civilian cuts-is yet to come...
When the Tories preserve the health program (that invention of the arch-fiend, Bevan) intact, administer the nationalized industries with the zeal they have promised and point directly to rearmament as the cause of the recent slump in British recovery, the critics may calm down for a while. They will explain to their readers that the Conservatives just aren't like Midwest-ern Republicans, in spite of their name, and that the whole mess shows that once you vote in socialists, you're stuck with them forever...
...floor of his Administration Building (he kept the third floor empty) in the hope that they would be so crowded that some would leave. He had no use for most sales managers, thought cars sold themselves on their mechanical qualities. Repeatedly he fired sales managers who blamed a sales slump on the Ford car's laggard styling, finally told Bennett: "What's the use of having any more sales managers? We'll just let them go." He disliked fat men, forced 300-lb. Fred Allison, an early associate in the Ford Company but who was down...
Super-Priorities. The new cuts in civilian goods mean that production of many consumer items, which have glutted the market in the summer slump, will soon fall behind demand. And with employment at a record peak of 62,630,000, and consumer income setting a new record annual rate of $252 billion, it also means a new pressure on prices, which can be broken only when industry's huge expansion program is completed...