Word: slumps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Colombia's economic woes are not entirely of its own making. Its main problem is that world prices for coffee, the country's only real source of foreign exchange, have been in a slump ever since 1957. It was partly in hope of getting the economy moving that the Conservative and Liberal parties buried a bitter, historic feud* and formed the National Front in 1958. The coalition has turned out to be a halfway house that neither party can really call home...
There are few phenomena in sports more inexplicable than a slump. Harvard's collapse seemed particularly perplexing because it came immediately after 30 minutes of outstanding play...
...Every Room. Radio's renaissance, after a slump during the 1950s, is due largely to the boom in small transistor models, which accounted for two-thirds of 1963's sales of 24 million sets. House wives plant radios in almost every room, listen to them an average of three hours a day; teen-agers tote the transistors in their pockets. The rise of suburban-and long-distance auto-commuting-as well as the increase in the number of cars-has lifted the total of car radios from 9,000,000 in 1946 to 50 million today. The number...
...they are canny; they knew exactly when to get the best deal from Sweden on a pulp mill - during a business slump...
Just Hitting. A successful knee operation last winter indicated that Killebrew was ready for the best season of his life this year. Instead, he lapsed into an inexplicable spring slump, on May 9 took his .167 average and sat down on the bench. Four days later, Manager Sam Mele put a rested Killebrew back on the field. Zot! Bam! Phoom! In 16 games, Killebrew walloped ten home runs and added almost 100 points to his batting average. His team is still deep in fifth place, but his average is at a peak...