Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drop of 109 civilian undergraduates brings the enrollment in that category down to a low 893, with the 453 Freshmen forming the largest single class...
...Japanese Navy had been lying low for months. The last time Japanese units had shown themselves in battle was in Kula Gulf on July 7, and the last time before that was in the final tussle off Guadalcanal in November...
Golf to Bridge. Local citizens' committees have arranged for golf and riding (only activities for which there is any charge), for dances and rainy-day bridge games. There are even provisions to mend uniforms, bring war-scattered records and pay accounts up to date, provide low-cost quarters for family visitors...
...barrelhead is a huge inducement: if they hang on and sell their liquor themselves, they are liable to excess-profits taxes running up to 90%. But if they sell out, they will merely pay the 25% tax on long-term capital gains. But for the big companies with low inventories, who must maintain their competitive positions, the reverse is true: almost any way of acquiring more well-aged whiskey stocks makes sense. Example: Seagram is the No. 1 North American liquor company in sales. But even after buying up Frankfort's 400,000 bbl. of whiskey its total inventories...
...Epaphroditus Peck, export salesman for Chauncey Jerome, another pioneering clockmaker, taught the English an early lesson in Yankee underselling. British customs authorities seized his first shipment of clocks because they were invoiced at such a low price that it looked like fraud. Under British law, Mr. Peck received the amount of his invoice plus 10%, and the British Government sold his clocks while he settled comfortably in London to wait for another shipment. The British bit a second time, but by the time they gave up and let in his third shipment in orthodox fashion, the Jerome trade-mark...