Word: low
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Low Down Payment. In Tulsa, Okla., because they needed the money, city officials swallowed their pride, cashed a taxpayer's check that read: "Pay to the order of the thieves of City Hall, $13.50 for water from a bunch of crooks...
...Communists called it. Many waved crude signs denouncing the Italian government and the European Common Market. Communist agitators in the crowd also put the blame on U.S. President Eisenhower (on the ungrounded thesis that U.S. wheat shipments for needy Italian children had undermined the potato market). Actually, low prices were the result of a local surplus, panicky farmers' hasty dumping on the market, and above all, the tight squeeze of the Camorra, the middlemen-racketeers who dominate farm-produce distribution in the Naples area (TIME, April...
...attendance at movies 20%, attendance at soccer games and horse races 25%. Even the rate of marriages has fallen 13% because of higher costs of setting up a household. The need for dollars to buy U.S. capital goods to raise production has depressed the peso, which hit an alltime low of no a dollar a fortnight ago before climbing back to 86. But the encouragement to export, and the discouragement of imports, is getting results. In the first four months of 1959, Argentina earned $102 million more than it spent abroad-its first favorable trade balance in five years...
...Douglas privately fights a hopeless battle against his reputation as a way-out zany, claims he is just an ordinary, well-adjusted gag writer. He admits having surrounded his former Hollywood home with a steel Cyclone fence and forbidding signs saying "Northridge Lion Farm," but he denies shooting at low-flying aircraft. He also admits the story about how he loaded up his swimming pool with lumber, but only, he explains with Douglassy logic, to help the rabbits and gophers that might fall...
...creates a fluctuating electrical current. Before the current reaches the recording apparatus Pomeroy and Sutton pass it through a special galvanometer-a coil that makes a small weight move against the resistance of a delicate spring. The waves in which they are interested are long and of low frequency (40 to 50 sec.). They found that by choosing a galvanometer with the proper relationship between coil and spring, they could mechanically "tune" their system to register only long earthquake waves and filter out shorter microseisms...