Word: waits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other publications I have seen increasing use of "recession," "slump" and "depression" regarding our present business situation. It seems to me that by using these terms we are talking ourselves into a good, all-out depression. This sort of talk scares customers . . . They tighten up their purse strings and wait for more price cuts. Businessmen begin to worry and slash payrolls needlessly. Pretty soon the scare builds up like a snowball going downhill...
...Wait Till Next Time. The President was up at 6, and hungry as a mountain lion by the time the paunchy veterans of old "Dizzy D" Battery whooped into a Marion Hotel dining room for their annual breakfast-home-grown peaches in thick cream, hickory-smoked country ham with "redeye" gravy, hominy grits, bacon & eggs and hot biscuits. As usual, it was a time for loud laughing and hearty reminiscences of some of the boys who were gone. Captain Harry did some reminiscing himself: Remember poor old Sandifer? He came through many a prizefight on cigarettes and a bottle...
...behind a pillar "where he couldn't see me." From behind the pillar Steamboat-Interstate Commerce Commissioner J. Monroe Johnson, an honorary member of Battery D-piped up: "If you think we did something for you in Washington last time [at the Battery D Inauguration-Day breakfast], just wait until the next time Captain Harry is President and see what we can do." Startled, Harry Truman laughed. "All those newsmen," he cautioned, "will think it's a plant...
These two cases should be sufficient to explain my attitude. I might add further statements I have made which also resulted in personal indignities: (a) "If you like baseball, why don't you wait until the Yankees get into town?" (b) "What do people find so enthralling about crew races, anyhow...
...Name. In Richmond, Va., after recruiting officers turned him down for the second time, 16-year-old John Paul Jones agreed to wait another year to join the Navy...