Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...change was not made merely to please the girls. Faced with the draft, the college foresaw a drastic slash in enrollment, and President Richard D. Weigle feared that it might have to drop 25% of its faculty. Even now, St. John's has only 165 students, two-thirds of capacity...
...Brussels, free-spending Briton George Dawson, who was wanted by U.S. authorities in Germany on charges of shady dealings in war surplus, slugged it out with London Daily Express Reporter Bernard West when he tried to interview him. Later, Express officials ordered West to drop assault charges against Dawson, explained coolly: "Express staff reporters do not fight with hoodlums...
...that the profits of the auto industry were big enough to absorb increases in wages and raw materials. It was true that the profits of some auto companies had been enormous. But they were big largely because of capacity production. With big cuts in auto production ahead, profits would drop far faster than the actual reduction in volume. In short, the Government's new venture into price control gave businessmen little confidence that the present control program would be a success...
Symbolically, the Combat Cargo Command had repeatedly provided the beleaguered troops with an aerial bridge to their bases. Day after day "flying boxcars" had swung low over the column to drop ammunition, medical supplies and rations. And eight miles back up the road at Hagaru, C-475 had set down on an improvised airstrip to pick up long lines of wounded and frostbitten men. Said Combat Cargo Command Pilot Lieut. James Wood: "The marines scraped out the field at Hagaru one afternoon while we circled over it." Every plane in Wood's squadron was damaged by enemy small-arms...
...Pritchett feared that leisure had become so rare and expensive that creative writers no longer had a chance to do good work. But more than a lack of leisure was responsible for the famine: there was a lack of commanding talent among the new writers, and a drop in performance among...