Word: stepped-up
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Dates: during 1951-1951
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...ceasefire, however, will certainly hit one soft spot in the economy: retail trade. Merchants who have been depending on a stepped-up arms program to pinch supplies and clear out their overloaded shelves, now will probably be overloaded for months, or, as some say optimistically, "till the pickup in the fall." Retail sales, which have been unimpressive for some time, last week were 2% below 1950. Many prices were due to drop. Last week St. Louis' Brown Shoe Co., Inc., one of the biggest U.S. shoe manufacturers, cut prices 9%, and other shoemakers got in step...
...word in Korea was "rotation." Under a stepped-up system to provide replacements for U.S. forces in Korea, 5,000 G.I.s left for the U.S. last month, 10,000 more are scheduled to come home this month. By early summer, the Army expects to step up rotation to 20,000 a month, although a serious rise in casualties would cut that figure sharply...