Word: slumps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity forwards have come out of their mid-season slump with 12 goals in the last two games and are intact for today. Roger Tuckerman, leading the Crimson scorers with 12 goals, will start at center forward. John Mudd, who scored four times against B.U. and Brown, and John Hedreen are the insides, while Kay Khan and Larry Ekpebu will open on the wings
...firm to build the four-motored, long-range DC-6s, boldly ordered a fleet of 125 DC-6s and shortrange, two-engined Consolidated Vultee CV-240s. As usual, he showed himself a master at timing and bargaining. So eager was Consolidated (now Convair) for orders to relieve its postwar slump that he got the 240s for the rock-bottom price of $225,000 each; even now, American is selling them for nearly what it paid...
...placed the first order for 25 of Douglas' big, fast DC-7s, which he got for some $700,000 less than later buyers, used them to begin the first roundtrip, nonstop flights across the continent. American has been in the black ever since '49; despite a slump in airline earnings, American held its own this year with nine-month earnings of $13,325,000, on a par with last year's nine-month earnings of $10,148,000, after allowing for a change in depreciation policy...
...slump in U.S. foreign trade during the first half of 1958 now appears to be leveling off, reported the Commerce Department. Trade with Latin America may be headed for the highest rate of any year except...
...biggest inflationary specter rises out of the Government's huge ($12 billion) deficit. Yet even there the worry is lessening. Just as last year's deficit was bigger than anyone expected because tax returns dropped in the business slump, so the current deficit may be smaller by $1 billion or $2 billion as business improves and tax payments increase. Says a U.S. Treasury spokesman: "An unbalanced budget does not just of itself create inflation. The extent to which you put it in the banks is the extent of its inflation. This $12 billion will be financed partly...