Word: stillness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that might force prices down. In Vincennes, they had quit picking peaches because they could not find a market. Other farmers across the U.S. had also become apprehensive of plenty. In California, pears and early Gravenstein apples went to waste. In Iowa, many a farmer's cribs were still crammed with last year's record crop of corn. This year's crop was nearly...
Crowded Freezers. Mrs. Goodhue had the deep freeze packed with meat (one hog, half a baby beef, and 15 or 20 chickens) but she was still a little put out about the time she didn't get some pork chops thawed out soon enough for lunch and had to buy eight for $1.70 at the country store. "That just about broke my heart," said Mrs. Goodhue. "They'll tell you that the farmers are getting good prices for their hogs. But there's an awful difference between what we get and what we pay over the counter...
Cripps appeared still dead set against devaluation of the pound ("A rude word not allowed to be scribbled on the Treasury walls," cracked one British official). But more & more, in the face of Britain's dwindling dollar reserves, British opinion itself was pressing for devaluation. It was argued that devaluation was inevitable anyway, and that its delay had become a "psychological" obstacle to traders in the sterling area. London's Economist summoned British "statesmanship" to meet the crisis with "imagination...
...disasters of falling living standards," declared the Economist, "of a collapsing sterling area and a disintegrating Commonwealth against which the government wishes to defend the country are implicit in the policies they are still pursuing. With or without American assistance they will in the near future be compelled to devalue, to cut costs, to increase output and to tackle the problem of productivity...
Shirley May France's clothes still hung on the hickory limb but she clung anxiously to a French beach, waiting for southwesterly winds to die down. The winds did not deter a hefty, partially crippled, 34-year-old Belgian mining machine manufacturer named Fernand du Moulin. Around 10 o'clock one night last week Fernand left a champagne party given by his wife, anointed himself with grease and took to the choppy waters off France's Cap Gris Nez. He struck out with a powerful breast stroke, stopping now & then to tread water and consume 20 fortifying...