Word: slumping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cheeriest aims to "bring the team out of its slump,' head cheerleader Roger L. Butler '51 announced last night. Coach Lloyd Jordan, Captain Phil Isenberg, Carroll Lowenstein, and Dike Hyde will also speak. The band will be there, too, according to manager Paul A. Lucey...
...little but chair bottoms and automobile floorboards. It also had a bad name because it warped and split. Ottinger started as a jobber in plywood, devised new uses for it, cleaned up in the recession of 1921 by buying vast quantities of plywood at the bottom of the slump, selling for a fat profit on the rise...
Among the hardest hit will probably be used-car dealers, already feeling a slump in sales. Warned the Reserve Board: the regulation will be tightened "if conditions warrant...
...time, Wall Street was suffering its worst trading slump in 23 years. Many brokers thought it was caused by too much federal regulation, and felt that a New Dealer like Schram could ease the controls. Schram was convinced that the public, still remembering the '29 crash, had to be sold the idea that Wall Streeters were not a pack of wolves who lived on lambs...
...through the summer, fiction sales have been in a slump. Most of the books at the top of the bestseller lists (The Cardinal, The Wall, Star Money, Jubilee Trail) have perched there for months, not because they are great novels but because the competition has not been good enough to dislodge them. The term bestseller itself became almost a misnomer. "Bestseller sales," complains the Retail Bookseller, "are down to depression levels." What is needed, says Bookseller, is "vitamin pills...