Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House competition this year default figures have fallen to a new low, with a corresponding rise in total participation in the intramural sports program...
When they called their first All Union Congress of Soviets in 1922-which delegates had trouble in reaching-steel production had fallen 96%; mining, 98%-agriculture...
Economist Hansen went on to point out that from 1922 to 1928 the U. S. population increased 9.1%; from 1930 to 1936 only 4.3%. Contracting with it, all private construction has fallen from a $9 billion annual business to $4 billions. If the New Deal chooses to take Mr. Hansen's tip, a drive for capital spending may take the form of housing...
...marks. But prices #151;the popular measure of inflation- have not risen markedly except on the "black" markets, nor are they likely to rise as long as Heinrich Himmler's Gestapo is busy spying on the shopkeepers. The over-all German standard of living has, however, fallen by at least 20% since the depression. And if extended work hours, the quality of goods and the recent failure to build houses or to replace obsolescent railroad equipment are considered, the decline has been even more precipitous. Money that formerly went into dwellings and the making of machines for producing articles...
...picket committee claims that the company's business has fallen off by 90 per cent since the strike began, and they hope that it will not be necessary to stay out on strike during the lucrative commencement week...