Word: winter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite the business-and-fun-as-usual, Osaka, like the rest of Japan, is suffering from severe economic cramps. Last winter, government subsidies were cut drastically and Japanese industry had to stand on its feet or collapse. Osaka unhesitatingly initiated harsh "rationalization" measures, including longer working hours and some firings...
Bruins figured that the new layout would put a stop to something else: the traditional rambunctiousness of the fraternities. During pledge week last winter, fraternity high jinks ended in one student death, several hundred dollars worth of property damage, and a finger-shaking from President Wriston, who called the fraternities "discriminatory, nondemocratic, and anti-intellectual...
...Midwest Exchange will not choose officers until winter, but nobody doubted that the president would be Jim Day, the man who had first suggested the merger. What had prompted his move was the fact that business on the Chicago Exchange had become flabby; a 30,000-share day looked big, although a dozen years ago 100,000-share days were not unusual. Jim Day reasoned that if the big brokerage houses could get business by having direct connections to their branch offices in scores of cities, stock exchanges in Midwest cities could do the same...
Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer, back from a trip around the East, had discovered that people "had an abiding faith in the soundness of our business economy." Last winter's decline of U.S. business had been interrupted. Manufacturers' orders for May and June had gone up 8%; job layoffs had dropped to their lowest rate since last November; the cost of living also dropped, if only an imperceptible...
...Dose of Free Enterprise. The turn may have come last winter when, with almost no dollars left, the Argentine state-trading system cracked up. Bruce insisted that there was nothing wrong that a small dose of free enterprise could not correct. Cautiously, the government moved to ease some state trade controls...