Word: downwards
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...downward trend in mid-year graduates is attributed to the marked decrease of veteran enrollment in the College. Since veterans are no longer a large factor in the undergraduate body, the war-born practice of facilitating degree-taking has become unnecessary...
...added that the University would increase the morale among the employees if it recognizes their present pressing financial condition; for nothing forces the spirit and morale downward faster than the lowering of wages by added taxes and continuous increase in prices for the simple necessities of life...
Bethlehem Steel's Chairman Eugene Grace took a hard look at steel production. Although Bethlehem's unfilled orders are at a peacetime high, Grace said gloomily: "I can't see anything but overproduction -and soon-in steel." Another downward sign came from the paper industry. Unfilled orders for paperboard, traditional bellwether for all other paper products, were off 40% from a year ago. And from the Federal Reserve Board came word that because of slack demand, production of many consumer goods had been cut considerably below the levels authorized...
Bucking the Trend. Some companies succeeded in bucking the downward trend. In spite of building cutbacks, big Johns-Manville managed to boost its third-quarter net from $5,700,000 to $6,700,000. The container industry made a notable showing: Continental Can's nine-month net rose from $10.4 million to $12.2 million, Container Corp.'s from $7,300,000 to $11.2 million. Oils, with their favorable depletion allowance for taxes, were still gaining; Atlantic Refining's nine-month net rose from $27.8 million to $31.9 million. Big price rises in newsprint enabled St. Regis Paper...
...plane hurtled above the crowd upside down, started to roll over and up. Then with an eerie roar it ripped downward, crushed spectators, smashed six cars, including an ambulance. In an instant, the happy crowd was turned into a panic-stricken, blood-spattered mass of humanity screaming in terror and pain...