Word: slumps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eventually and Sophomore Gone Levett to the sidelines. Fred Hockel played in Keyes place at shortstop throughout most of the Holy Cross game after Art Johns was driven off the mound back to his regular post at the keystone sack. "Snake" Keyes has been struggling with a rest batting slump which has found his average dipping down around 100 for the 11 contests he has played in. Heckel's fielding seems to stack up favorably with the "Snake's," and he should outhit him by quite a few percentiage points
...although every U. S. State had laws requiring that all children be schooled, some 800,000 U. S. children of elementary school age had no school to go to. Most of them were in poor farm areas that could not maintain a school. Hard times and a slump in real-estate tax collections (still the public schools' chief source of support) increased the number of unschooled children. The nation's public education system rallied from Depression three years ago, but this year was struck again by the backlash of the 1937 Recession. By last week so many distress...
...January 1938, when the price was doubled from 1 s. to 2 s., circulation had climbed to 6,000. Readers of the current (April) issue read a stiff-upper-lip editorial announcing that it would be the last. The London Mercury was broke. Reason: A catastrophic slump in subscribers and advertisers due to "political and economic tempests of the last year...
Dean Phelps, furthermore, jokingly predicted a business slump, "because," he said, "the number of honor grades is inversely proportional to the welfare of general American business...
...even small inventories may prove excessive. Last week a few economists were claiming that such is the case now. Economics Statistics, Inc. (of Manhattan) held that soaring industrial production, following last spring's depletion of inventories, had once more over-replenished inventories-enough to account for the current slump in industrial production and stock prices...