Word: falling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...English professor was one of the founders of the A.A.U.P. chapter in the fall of 1949 and was elected its first president. During the past year the chapter has enrolled a majority of the Washington faculty and has prepared a report comparing Washington teaching salaries unfavorably with those paid in other Middle States colleges...
...reason for this year's postponement of the usual spring meeting is the short time since the last convention, which was held in San Francisco last September. The fall date was set so members could plan to reach the coast...
...minutes, picked up the local sponsorship of more than 60 banks, newspapers, labor unions and assorted businesses. Denny and many of his fans feel that the Meeting has lost something by the time cut, and he hopes to go to three-quarters of an hour in the fall. A television show is also scheduled, at the Milton Berle hour. "We don't mind that," says Denny cheerfully. "They're two exactly opposite appeals...
...Strength. Last fall LeBlanc was selling only 150,000 bottles of Hadacol a month when the advertising began to take. Then there was a sudden shortage. Result: a black market in which Hadaco was bootlegged at $2 or more for the $1.25 bottle. After that the medicine enjoyed such a boom that last month around 2,000,000 bottles were sold...
Spurred by reports of shortages, the price of coffee shot upward last fall. In three months' trading on the New York Coffee & Sugar Exchange, March futures in "Santos S" coffee rose 69% to a record of 50.1? a pound. The retail price of coffee hovered around 80?. For the rise, the Pan-American Coffee Bureau, which represents Latin American growers, had a crisp explanation: "The sudden rise in coffee prices may be explained in just two words-'bad weather...