Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...name: Howard Rice) was going strongest, in the early '30s, about 25% of all radios in WOR's New York area were daily tuned to his wheedling, down-on-hands-&-knees half hour for the kiddies. Last week Uncle Don's Hooper rating had sagged so low that WOR decided to drop his 19-year-old daily program, leaving him, for the moment, only his Sunday morning session of reading-the-funnies. Explained a WOR official: "No one has ever felt quite the same about him since the Incident...
...latest models' to retail for $1.69 and $2.69 (at most, it costs him 33? to manufacture his ballpoints). So he wanted to clean out his stock of 350,000 obsolete models which retailed for $3.85. He sold the $3.85 pens to a jobber at a price so low that they could be retailed for about...
...into other troubles. They could not go to Russia, Rumania, Bulgaria or Hungary. Elsewhere in Europe, food and hotel rooms were none too plentiful, many a currency was so unstable as to make the value of U.S. dollars unpredictable. Best travel bets: the British Isles, Switzerland, Scandinavia, France, the Low Countries...
...challenging roars were not enough, other film-makers were thinking of getting into the record business too. And there were whispers in Chicago that Sears, Roebuck, which only recently has started marketing its own discs through a record-of-the-month club, had a low-priced wire recorder almost ready to go. All platter-makers, including newcomer MGM, were keeping their fingers crossed-and their researchers busy...
...more fundamentally, Europe is losing its last chance at middle-of-the-road economic remedies if English mines continue to send spasms of paralysis through British industry. Democratic moderates in France and the Low Countries has looked to a flow of consumers goods from these factories to clothe and comfort their shabbily-dressed millions while at the same time the export of processed foods to England was to be balanced by this trade. To Germans the British dimout meant that the industrial rehabilitation of their country must await stimulus from the east, since Newcastle can scarcely afford coals...