Word: trend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...significant downward trend in prices has been noticed or is foreseen by seven Square merchants questioned by the CRIMSON yesterday. While slight price drops have occurred in furniture, cotton goods, and certain foods, the merchants indicated that hikes in the cost of woollens and meat are a distinct possibility this spring...
...merchants complained of decreases in sales volumes, but they attributed the drops to the shrinkage of the Harvard student body rather than to an economic trend...
Most House basketball games in the last few days have been won by slender one, two, or three point margins. Dudley changed that trend yesterday afternoon by burying Eliot with a cannonade of 60 points against the Elephants' 20. The victory was the fifth in a row for Coach Bob Waite's commuters...
Exeter lost its first game of the season to Tilton by one point last week. This afternoon Coach Lloyd Harper's freshman basketball squad travels to the New Hampshire prep school to try to make its solitary loss a trend. Game time...
...Washington, Dr. Edwin G. Nourse, pince-nezed chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, gave some reassurance. In his monthly report on the economy, Dr. Nourse predicted that neither the drop in employment nor the decline in food prices would develop into a trend (see BUSINESS). An enormous total of 57,500,000 people was at work. The decline in food prices, he added, was a reflection of last year's bumper crops rather than an indication of a slipping economy...