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21 . Warm weather did not bring the usual seasonal upswing this year in:
As a result of skillful maneuvering, aided by earnest oratory from Attlee, Bevin, Bevan, Morrison and Cripps, the British Labor Party closed its conferences at Blackpool last week on a note of determined unity against the Tory opposition, which was dangerously on the upswing.
Into Chicago's Congress Hotel one night last week trooped some 200 members of the Greater Chicago Used Car Dealers Association. They were a gloomy lot. Their sales had dropped steadily since autumn; with plenty of new cars around, used-car prices had plummeted as much as one-third...
Appearing under the heading "New England Roundup," the item read as follows: "Student recruiting in area on upswing...Harvard CP established a "one-a-day" policy ... Kept it up five days without a break...Anybody beat it?"
Literary Trapezeman William Saroyan, high-flying apostle of man's humanity to man, was on the upswing again: after thinking it over for three days, his wife had decided to tack a Saroyan ending on to the whole episode, dropped her divorce suit.