Word: low
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strongly-and how quickly-President Eisenhower came back from that low period is a fact of history only recently achieving general recognition...
...December; 4,500,000 in January; 5,100,000 in February. Wearily, Dwight Eisenhower flew to George Humphrey's Milestone Plantation in Georgia, sat before a fire for the best part of seven days, made no pretense at performing presidential functions (TIME, March 3, 1958). It was the low point of his career...
...matters little what a patient is suffering from. Dr. Niehans claims cures of dwarfism in children, underdeveloped genitals or breasts, obesity, mongolism, some forms of mental retardation, absence of menstruation, homosexuality, habitual abortion, low (but not high) blood pressure, cirrhosis of the liver, reduced sexual desire, impotence, arteriosclerosis, and some forms of heart disease. Diagnosis and treatment are decided on the basis of a still controversial urinalysis, in which the proportions of certain "ferments" are supposed to show which glands or organs are out of whack...
...Treasury's troubles are a key part -but only a part-of the squeeze on money. Because of the new boom, there has been a large rise in business loans, which have soared from a recession low of $52 billion in May 1958 to $58 billion last month. Heavy Government financing ($13 billion deficit last year), a record volume of state and local fund-raising in the first half of 1959, and a jump in consumer credit have added to the competition for funds. Following the surge, interest rates on bank business loans in 19 major cities went from...
Woolworth's modernization has been forced since the end of World War II, as expanding supermarkets and drug stores grabbed an important share of the low-priced variety-store market. In self-defense Woolworth's upgraded its merchandise, spruced up its stores, shifted its emphasis to self-service stores in burgeoning suburban shopping centers. To spark its superstore and self-service programs, Woolworth's in 1954 picked a lifetime employee named Robert Campbell Kirkwood, who had started as a stock checker right out of high school in his home town of Provo, Utah 36 years before. Trim...