Word: lowering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...transmitter and batteries, encased in a streamlined aluminum shell, the whole weighing about 2 lb. One of the balloons went up 12 miles. In Washington it was observed that a storm had penetrated that far into the stratosphere-or rather, that the storm had lifted to 12 miles the lower boundary of the stratosphere, since that region is by definition a calm, "weatherless" stratum...
Last week the Allied Dental Council moved its headquarters from grubby lower Manhattan near Cooper Union to prosperous West 57th Street near Calvary Baptist Church. For the star attraction of their dedication program they invited non-Jewish Dr. Victor Hugo Sears to give them his first formal explanation of a new kind of false teeth...
...Last week's produced three: 8:48.6 for the 3,000-metre steeplechase, by Indiana's Tommy Deckard; 1:59.7 for the 1,000-metre medley relay, by the New York Curb Exchange team; and 6 ft. 9¼ in. for the high jump-only ½ in. lower than the outdoor world's record, held jointly by Negroes Cornelius Johnson and Dave Albritton-by Marquette's Negro Sophomore Edward Burke, handicapped by a slightly twisted knee...
...counters and soda fountains, including sunsuits, liquor, radios, alarm clocks, golf balls. Prescriptions account for only 2½ of total sales, proprietary medicines 30%. Like every other chain store, Walgreen favors its own brands.- However, a customer asking for a nationally-advertised product always gets it, usually at a lower price than anywhere else in the neighborhood. Motto of the 20th-century general store: "You're always welcome at Walgreen...
...this poor year the can makers unanimously blamed the Robinson-Patman Act, which forced revision of their contracts with can users. For once that much-debated measure brought lower instead of higher prices to consumers. Since the law tends to make big and little customers pay the same prices, the general rule is to bring quotations in line by boosting prices to the big customers. In the can business, where the big customers are very big, this rule apparently could not be applied. It is too easy for the big canners to make their own cans, as Heinz and Phillips...