Word: low
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Low Countries last week were running a low fever about their royal families. In The Netherlands, Queen Juliana took a dressing down in the press for inviting to her palace a crackpot U.S. space traveler named George Adamski (TIME, June 1). In Belgium, the newspapers fumed about ex-King Leopold, who was forced to abdicate eight years ago in favor of his eldest son Baudouin, but did not move out of the royal palace at Laeken or stop meddling in affairs of state...
...parents were too uneducated to help with studies, he said frankly, they could at least buy dictionaries and give children a place to work. "Integration didn't put us in too good a light," he told the parents over and over. "School is important business. We have been low man on the totem pole, and too satisfied with...
There, an international congress had just proclaimed: "Leprosy is a disease of low contagiousness and amenable to treatment . . . All discriminatory laws should be abolished. Measures should be taken to promote public understanding of the true nature of leprosy and to remove all prejudices and superstitions associated with the disease...
Japan's success is based mainly upon low wages and high skills. The typical Japanese transistor worker is a deft-fingered, teen-aged girl, accumulating a dowry and delighted to work for $23.34 a month and dormitory space. Furthermore, the Japanese have successfully overcome their greatest drawback, the tendency to export poor-quality goods. The government refuses to license substandard products. Individual Japanese companies are even more exacting. Hitachi, Ltd. of Tokyo, one of the leading makers, recalled an entire U.S. shipment because one plastic case color ran slightly...
...index of average share prices vaulted from $45.24 on last Dec. 30 to $59.29 last week. In Britain, where the bull started putting on meat after the Conservative government lifted restrictions on consumer credit, the stock index piled record upon record all last week, closed 56% above the low of February...