Word: slumps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Year ago Colonel Ayres misgauged the slump in auto production by a full...
...week, after a few months of recovery, U. S. business had regained 55% of its Depression II losses. And for the first time since recovery began there appeared visible doubt as to its continuance. Most visible sign was the stockmarket's third successive week of reaction. Although no slump appeared in production indices- power, building, autos continued up- there was distress in two prime measures of public demand for goods; a rise was seasonally normal and money supply was at a peak, but nationwide bank debits and bank clearings tumbled. If such an unbalance-production rising, demand falling-were...
...fears that the 1938 automotive slump might have brought reductions in the industry's contributions to the Foundation, an allaying answer was given by Paul Gray Hoffman, who is Studebaker's as well as the Foundation's energetic president. Anticipated for 1939's work...
...industry's best year. But behind its optimistic front, the automotive industry knew as well as anyone else that the economic highway was being strewn with tacks. Warily, the industry proceeded with 1938 production, but not warily enough. By spring, when Depression II was in full slump, even low-gear production had turned out many more units than the dealers could move...
...booters seemed to have definitely recovered from their slump which began two weeks before when they were tied by the Tigers from New Jersey, and which almost cost them a blemish on their undefeated record at the hands of M. I. T. last week...