Word: slumps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Incomplete as mere earnings figures last week (major food, automobile and building companies had still to report), certain conclusions were inescapable. Steel's tumble was proof of how heavy industry has lagged in the recovery from Depression II. Caterpillar Tractor's drop reflected the slump in farm income. Conversely, Continental Baking's rise shows how industry's more rigid prices make for profits when highly elastic farm or other raw-material prices fall...
Stahl is admittedly out to bring baseball out of the slump of recent years. In doing this he wants first to improve the play of the team and second to secure the interest and support of the Undergraduate body...
...important commentator last week could find in the fabric of U. S. industry any moth hole big enough to justify a major stock slump. Signs for optimists included...
...This time, instead of the $32,000,000 boost in revenue which Mr. Williamson and friends expected, passenger revenues dropped-the New York Central's falling 17% in August, compared with 1937, the B. & O.'s 19.5%, the New Haven's 3%. This slump continued until the Christmas holidays, when the roads experimentally restored the old low rates, got an immediate lift. Hence last week's committee...
Muriel Fane, dull, constantly depressed daughter of John; and Henry Morton, a dreary hop-farmer. Hops slump, she has children; between them they are so comfortably, wholeheartedly gloomy that the marriage survives...