Word: trends
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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November. The trend was sharp in the farm-equipment industry, which had been stung by three years of declining farm income. Late last year it reached the automobile industry. As U.S. military expenditures began to decline, there were layoffs at plants engaged in defense work. By last month the number of unemployed was officially placed at 2,300,000, compared to 1,200,000 at October's low point...
...tightened, leaving the scholar little choice in his curriculum. The only lenient measure was a course reduction that allowed the student's father to request that such subjects as Greek or Latin be omitted from his son's long list of required languages. With the Civil War came a trend toward less rigid requirements and encouragement of a three year program...
Some of the conquerors themselves are alarmed at the trend. U.S. businessmen, who have found themselves undersold in foreign markets by 40% or more on such items as X-ray equipment and cement-making machinery, are getting out their storm warnings. Some British firms are so worried that they are already bluntly reminding their customers that the Germans who today are winning export business away from the British are the" same ones who yesterday made the V-25 that bombed London. Headlined Lord Beaverbrook's London Daily Express: THEY'LL BEAT YOU YET, THESE GERMANS...
...Clinch ("As basic as Adam and Eve") ; 2) See (SEE THE WILD ANIMALS STAMPEDE. SEE THE MARTYRS THROWN TO THE STARVING LIONS); 3) Sincere ("A dignified, editorial type of ad . . . THIS THEATER is PROUD TO ANNOUNCE . . ."); 4) Pike's Peak or Bust ("Jean Harlow kicked off the new trend . . ."); 5) How Much Is That Girlie 'Gainst the Lamppost? ("Such an illustration tells, without words, that the lady is shady"); 6) Musical Comedy ("Must be illustrated with a smiling, toothy twosome and be liberally peppered with prancing chorus girls and top-hatted dancers. HEAR 14 HIT TUNES must never...
...recent issue of Scientific American, Sognnaes reported that human teeth are steadily deteriorating, and that if this trend is not checked, sound teeth in another 1050 years will be memory of the past...