Word: trend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crisis Crimped? Office of Defense Transportation Director J. M. Johnson announced that freight-car production in October reached a postwar peak of 8,394. He hopes that the goal of 10,000 cars a month, scheduled for September, might be reached this month. Reversing a three-year trend, the U.S. in the last two months has built more cars than have been scrapped...
Liebling views with alarm the trend toward fewer newspapers and their control by "a group of wealthy individuals who share the same point of view." He thinks publishers have no right to be publishers simply because they inherited papers. Writes Liebling: "Try to imagine the future of medicine, law or pedagogy if their absolute control were vested in the legal heirs of men who had bought practices in 1890-even when the heirs lacked any special training...
Women are tending to shun their domestic role in life, and the schools are aiding them in this trend, O. Hobart Mowrer, associate professor of Education, told the Students Association of Natural and Social Sciences last night...
...Department of Commerce pointed out that the figures included inventory profits (i.e., values added to stored goods because of rises in their market prices), "which, in the recent period of rising prices, have been an important factor in the advance of reported profits." But inventory profits showed a declining trend in the first half of this year; if they were excluded, earnings would still show a rise through June. Current profit levels in wholesale and retail trades, the Department added, were probably lower, due to rising costs...
...cannot be denied that some nonacademic presidents have made decided successes. . . . But... I wonder whether the present trend in our universities . . . may not be responsible for the fact that we can today count our outstanding presidents on the fingers of one hand. ... I should place educational leadership ahead of mere administrative ability; the latter can be secured, it can be bought. The former is far rarer. . . . What reason have we to anticipate that men whose aim has been the winning of elections, or increasing the earnings of their stockholders, or even defeating the enemy in a series of bloody battles...