Word: smaller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shoppers were looking for bargains, whereas a year ago many did not even bother to ask the price. Tips were smaller and waitresses were being polite to customers again. Just as in the U.S., the bottom had dropped out of the "used (new) car" market...
...that nine of the centennial crop would reply, "To get a better job," or just "To get a job." When the G.I.s came back, the College of Engineering doubled in size. A new School of Commerce, set up in 1944, already has 1,235 students. Classes in philosophy are smaller than in 1940, though the university's enrollment has doubled in the same time...
...matter what the explanation, the 1948 epidemic would go down in the official statistics as one of the worst in history. Through Dec. 11, the U.S. Public Health Service had received reports of 27,032 cases, close to the alltime record of 27,363 cases (from a smaller population) for the full year 1916. But was it really as bad as it looked? The experts were not sure. Diagnosis and reporting of polio are better than they used to be: years ago doctors recognized only cases that resulted in paralysis; now they can often spot the milder cases that used...
...Smaller Profits. This argument got nowhere with Harvard Professor Seymour Harris, an economist who has usually taken the New Deal line. He thought that business profits were too high. And he worried, over the "overinvestment" in new plants. Said Harris: "Obviously, we are doing too much with our limited resources. Hence the pressure on prices." The fact that management was spending so much had helped cause a scramble for materials, and had driven up prices. The plant expansion, he thought, was an "inflationary factor of great importance...
Furriers were digging foxholes for a long bout with the buyers' strike. Manhattan's I. J. Fox, Inc., biggest U.S. fur retailer, canceled plans for four new New York City stores, decided instead to lease fur departments in smaller department stores all over the U.S. By plugging lower-priced furs, the company-like other furriers-hoped to make up in mass sales for the slump in its luxury coats...