Word: trended
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Trend. Says Wendell Willkie of his boom: "I would like to think it means I'm a hell of a fellow . . . but I think it means ... I represent a trend, or am ahead of a trend." Groping to define that trend last week, commentators called it a sign of impatience with politicians, an end to popular suspicion of businessmen as such, a recognition of the need for industrial leadership in a crisis. Deepest was the realization that the Republican convention would meet in the hour of Hitler's greatest triumph and democracy's greatest defeat. Wrote Columnist...
...inventions which most aided the U. S. industrial revolution, the telegraph and steamship, were perfected by two artists, highly important in their day, Morse and Fulton. Thus the artists led off the industrial revolution and now that the revolution has reached the saturation point, industry is leading the trend back to art. Conditions for the perfectly functioning machine are precisely the same needed for perfect art. . . . Americans (workers as well as designers) are expressing artistic genius through beautiful machines. They don't know that they are artists any more than the old Mexican pottery workers know that they...
...three hundred years the history of our continent was substantially determined by England's effort, by roundabout means of balanced, mutually binding relations of power among the European States, to maintain and secure the necessary protection in the rear for big British aims in world politics. The traditional trend of British diplomacy . . . was deliberately aimed at preventing by all means the rise of any great European Power above the level of the general scale of magnitudes, and, if necessary, to crush it by military means.-Mein Kampf...
...followed suit. Another casualty was cotton: July futures down 10% to 9.11?. Moody's Index of 15 spot prices fell 7.1% during the week, the sharpest percentage decline in its history. Evidently manufacturers of consumer goods, who buy their raw materials in these exchanges, feared that a long trend against them...
Most significant of all was the behavior of the scrap steel market. It forgot all about its normal 20% dependence on exports, remembered only that it grows scarce when heavy industry booms, countered the week's trend by rising...