Word: falling
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Crimson will field virtually the same team it has used thus far this season. Mullin, Fitzgerald, and Ed Hamlin should all finish in the first half-dozen, although Fitzgerald has been somewhat off his stride this fall. Regular track captain Fred Howard will also race. Howard has decided to complete with the cross country team steadily...
...decline in inventory accumulation. It was the first G.N.P. decline in 1960, and still left the rate higher than it has ever been in any other year. Early third-quarter reports show that corporate profits have been disappointing. Of most concern to economists is a third-quarter fall-off in final demand, i.e., what the consumer and the Government actually buy. After running at a net gain of about $10 billion for the first two quarters, the rate of final demand fell back to about $2 billion in the third quarter. Combined with a drop in inventory accumulation, this...
...RISE AND FALL OF THE THIRD REICH (1,245 pp.)-William L Shirer-Simon & Schusfer...
...Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Author William Shirer has undertaken to tell the entire Hitler story in one massive volume. A former reporter and newscaster, Shirer covered Germany and the Nazis from 1925 until the U.S. entered the war, and his bestselling Berlin Diary (TIME, June 23, 1941) was one of the earliest casebooks of Nazi practice. To his huge task Shirer brings only modest writing gifts, but he has an advantage that swamps all shortcomings: his material is horribly fascinating. He has done thorough research in captured documents, in books and in diaries. The result...
...Rise and Fall acts as a breezy, journalistic surrogate for many better books on specialized aspects of Naziism. Not its least compelling aspect is that the grisly and familiar ending seems to follow with simple inevitability from everything that has gone before...