Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...north of Saigon, was a company town and, until last week, a tranquil and prosperous one. Most of its 10,000 inhabitants worked for a giant French rubber plantation, the Societe des Caoutchoucs d'Extreme-Orient, whose trees marched away row upon row, mile after mile, across the low hills toward the Cambodian border...
Thus far, Metherell has successfully taken black and white sound pictures of a model submarine, a model aircraft carrier, an airplane silhouette, the letter R and various geometric shapes. Using low frequencies, acoustical holography could explore for oil and mineral deposits at depths of several miles. Archaeologists could use higher frequencies to search for buried cities. Oceanographers may well map the ocean floor in the same way. And at frequencies between 1 and 10 megacycles, diagnostic holograms may some day chart not only tumors, but soft areas of the body-such as muscles, blood vessels and brain tissue-that...
Discount operators, meanwhile, have had difficulty adhering to their old high-volume, low-overhead gospel. "Customers are demanding from us what they get in traditional department stores," explains Sherwin Newar, president of the Houston-based Sage International discount chain. This means credit, home delivery and more attractive stores-all of which cost money. Though many discount houses cut costs by using checkout counters and shopping carts instead of big sales forces, other increases in overhead have sent their price markups, once about 25%, as high as 35% -ominously close to the typical department store...
...owner of a small insurance company, he began dabbling in the stock market in his teens, ran up his $20,000 grubstake by age 18. He moved west after his father's death, started selling fire insurance, and soon hit upon the idea of concentrating on the low-risk residential side of that business, especially on foreclosed properties (which in those days required a new policy). Thus the Depression made him rich. "I felt like an undertaker," Ahmanson once remarked. 'The worse things got, the better they were...
...Houston, the O.K. Tire and Rubber Co., Valvoline Oil, the $96 million chemical operations of Archer Daniels Midland Co., and Warren Brothers Co. of Cambridge, Mass., the nation's largest asphalt-paving company. Meanwhile, Ashland executives including the chairman continue to occupy modest offices and drive low-priced cars. Says Blazer proudly: "We have probably the only executive parking lot in the country filled only with Fords, Chevrolets and Plymouths...