Word: slumps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doing their unlevel best to bull their way through one of the nation's biggest-and most botched-running stories: the recession. Though more than 50.000 workers are out of jobs in Georgia's four largest cities, the Atlanta Journal has zealously kept the state's slump off the front page, and, until last week, even banned the word recession from the paper...
...story with candor and imagination. Just as Democrats in Washington pedaled hard for political mileage, it was Democratic dailies generally (but not exclusively) that gave the recession the biggest play. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Louisville Courier-Journal and Chattanooga Times were quick to tell readers how the slump was affecting community and family life, personal budgets, taxes, jobs. Marshall Field's Chicago Sim-Times ran a human-interest series on the steel-mill layoffs at Gary, Ind. (and in a story on employment agencies last week unearthed the fact that first-rate secretaries are still hard to find...
...added two topical syndicated columns: "You and Your Job" and "Family Finance." A five-part recession roundup filed by the Associated Press last week was used by most papers-including many that maintain there is no recession. Though it had yet to focus on human angles of the slump in its own backyard, the encyclopedic New York Times reached across the world to report repercussions of U.S. economic pangs...
Faith v. Doubt. Buick Boss Edward T. Ragsdale, who set off last week on a nationwide tour of 26 cities to enlist the aid of Buick's 3,500 dealers in "a crusade for confidence in the nation's economy," thought he had the reason for the slump...
...freshman basketball team must win its final game at New Haven tonight to preserve its winning season. The Yardling quintet is currently in the throes of a bad slump, having lost seven of its last nine encounters for an 8-7 record...