Word: weather
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...precise figure was guarded like a missile blueprint. But word seeped out that the total showed no significant change from the mid-February level of 5,173,000. The hoped-for seasonal improvement was missing, but at least partly to blame for this disappointment was March's wintry weather, which delayed the spring thaw in farming and construction. Pointing to the adverse weather, some Administration economists argued that the neither-white-nor-black unemployment figure really upheld the cautiously hopeful prediction broadcast by President Eisenhower last February. March, said the President, should see "the beginning...
...spring soaked apricot trees, vineyards, alfalfa stands, tomato rows and the hopes of thousands of farmers. Sample casualty: the cotton grower, afraid that he would not be able to work his fields before the normal May 10 planting deadline; to work them later would mean the risk of bad weather during the fall picking season, lower-grade cotton, lower prices. Cotton was a $250 million crop in the valley last year...
Another indication that consumers were growing cautious came from an FRB report that installment buying dipped $435 million in February. Much of the decline was due to badly slumping February auto sales, when poor weather kept buyers out of the showrooms. With the push of hard selling (see Autos), sales were on the rise in March. But new-car inventories of 887,000 were so high that carmakers were not planning to step up production. Ward's Reports counted March production at 357,000 cars, predicted the same rate through the April-June quarter...
...thawed enough. Milling capacity will be boosted only in areas where ore bodies were developed before last Nov. 1, thus giving no encouragement to the development of new finds or combatting the sharp decline in U.S. prospecting in the last six months. But Western miners hope that more thawing weather...
Saturday afternoon at Tufts University's Mystic Lake, the sailing team finished second to M.I.T., in a race hampered by bad weather...