Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Schleswig-Holstein to Bavaria. Bonn's plans called for an expansion of the Bundeswehr over the next few years, but Kiesinger's Cabinet, worried about the economic slowdown in West Germany, two weeks ago decided to cut military expansion plans by about 25%. When a jet passed low over the Palais Schaumburg, in which the Cabinet was meeting, Interior Minister Paul Lücke cracked: "Schroder is calling out his Starfighters against us." Schroder was not amused. "No," he replied icily, "that must be the Americans pulling...
...fast as he could play it. With Fats Waller and James P. Johnson dead, he is the last of the great "stride style" pi anists who flourished in Harlem in the '20s and '30s. The style - so named be cause the left hand shuttles between low notes and midrange chords in an oompah pattern - draws its riches from ragtime, and it requires a "two-fisted tickler" to make it roll...
...world's commodity exchanges, silver for some years has been about as volatile and exciting as molasses. The U.S. Treasury, as the chief free-world supplier of the metal, has kept the market quiet by selling bullion at a low $1.29 per oz. in order to keep the price below the point (about $1.40 per oz.) at which melting U.S. coins for their silver content becomes profitable. Last week, after the Treasury yielded to the rising demand on its own dwindling stocks by lifting the price lid after four years of control, silver exploded as the shining new commodity...
...proved a profitable formula. Sales have doubled in a decade, and this year the company is certain to go past the $500 million mark. Earnings advanced by a highly impressive 24.7% during the first half. Walgreen stock has risen correspondingly, from a 1966-67 low...
...while, Walgreen's aims to maintain low prices made possible by tightly integrated operations. The drug and cosmetic factory in Chicago stocks the chain's shelves with Perfection cold cream, Orlis mouthwash, and Olafson vitamin tablets and capsules, of which the company makes 290 million annually. Eight ice cream plants churn out 3.2 million gallons of 21 flavors each year, while its roasting and blending plant produces enough coffee to fill 50 million cups. Watching over all this is a computerized inventory system...