Word: trended
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dealer with a deep-seated fear of wild speculation, was "not so sure this is anything more than a flurry." The diehards who were clinging to their bearish positions hoped he was right. Broker John H. Lewis, who had been one of the first to see the 1946 bear trend, was still seeing the market in a cold grey light. But he confessed that he was lonely. "Until a few weeks ago I had a lot of company," he said. "Now, I'm about the only one left. The others have all jumped on the bull wagon...
...traffic, barricaded fire engines, halted garbage collections. Fleets of borrowed tractors, sanitation trucks, snowplows removed 99 million tons of snow, and opened 5,000 miles of streets. He created a successful agency for mediating labor disputes. He engaged in an uphill battle to encourage housing construction. The new trend: great groups of apartment houses like the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.'s Peter Cooper Village and Stuyvesant Town. After backing and filling for months, he screwed up his courage to raise subway fares from a nickel to a dime...
...Stassen plane landed in Minneapolis, the first returns from the Oregon primary were beginning to come in. Stassen studied them. "It looks like a trend," , he remarked worriedly. It was. At week's end there was no doubt about it. The score: Dewey, 111,657; Stassen, 102,419. There was gloom in Minneapolis. The mighty Stassen had struck...
...chief reason for the radical shift in Radcliffe figures, according to the survey, seems to stem from the trend in Radcliffe marriages. Only 59 percent of the 'Cliffe Class of 1923 is married, while 72 percent of the Class of 1938 has already achieved marital bliss...
...year, the number of U.S. sets in use will be nudging the million mark; there will be 60 stations on the air. By 1950 the U.S. will have its first coast-to-coast television network, and by 1954, if the trend holds, television will have 16 million receivers and an audience of 65 million...