Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this point, Leverett elected to try for a field goal. The crowd laughed when big Norm Cameron backed up, adjusted his helmet, and prepared to boot the ball from such a formidable distance, but the gasped a moment later when a long low kick sailed toward the uprights. The ball struck the cross-bar and bounded back on the field, and the Elephants lowered their trunks, gave a long sigh of relief, and took over...
...production or planned to close. For want of hides and leather, shoe production next month would drop to about one-third of the first-quarter level, with many shutdowns of shoe factories in the offing. For want of animal extracts, insulin and streptomycin supplies dwindled toward a critical low...
...ball bearing in his new empire. (His office is in his apartment in Manhattan's swank St. Regis Hotel.) Things were not always thus. In 1929, as head of Chicago's Hartman Furniture & Carpet Co., he saw it go broke in the depression, learned that low prices alone were not enough to make people buy. In 1939 he teamed up with Ralph A. Bard (later Under Secretary of the Navy) to buy the shaky Wahl Co., which made Eversharp pens & pencils...
...Low Use of Legs. Another cost booster was overall inefficiency. Production hands liked their overtime; production heads were no longer anxious to finish a picture that might be kept in the can for two or three years. Typical result: 20th Century, which a few years ago finished pictures in an average of 47 days, now takes 85 days...
...pornographic. When a bookseller bucks Boston, he has to undergo a lot of direct and indirect persecution. Mr. Isenstadt has been undergoing this persecution but will continue to defend his constitutional right to sell books and the right of any individual to buy them." There followed a low murmur of applause from the first term law students jamming the aisle of the store...