Word: stays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Voluntary enlistments and re-enlistments are currently coming in at the rate of 35,000 a month. If this flow keeps up, the Army will easily stay at its quota without issuing any draft calls, the CRIMSON learned...
...Democrats in those two-thirds majorities. Mr. Truman's record up to last summer was so colorless that Republican leaders deemed a campaign unnecessary, thought they would lose less votes by avoiding commitments than they would attract by lavish promises. The President's margin of victory largely represents stay-at-home Republicans, who, confronted with a choice between no program and the Truman deal, avoided the dilemma by voting for neither...
...thing to do, said Brailsford, is to teach people hygiene, train them to stay away from doctors unless symptoms develop...
Exit: Bull? If it had, it did not stay long. The industrial averages rose to 193.16 before the baby bull, scared by the Berlin blockade, the threat of war, and a possible squeeze on profits, languished and died. On the election of President Truman the market fell 10.82 points in a week, the worst break since the spring of 1940. At year's end the averages were at 177.30, down slightly from the year's start, and Wall Streeters were more confused than ever on whether the market was bound up or down...
...little heed to the fat profits or to any of the other household gods that traders once swore by. Ever since it had collapsed in fear of a recession in 1946, the market had been seesawing, trying to make up its mind whether the boom had really come to stay. Looking at some of the props under the boom-plant expansion, ECA and rearmament orders-investors celebrated the tax cut by finally placing their bets...