Word: lowering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year buying surpluses and giving them to the poor, which pleases the poor and the farmers but worries the food distributing industry. Last fall Secretary of Agriculture Wallace proposed a bolder "two-price plan" under which surplus goods would be sold at one price to most buyers, at a lower price to the needy. Business reacted so unfavorably that the plan was hastily abandoned. Last week came news of something new under the agricultural sun: a new plan to make farmers, Business and the poor equally happy...
Married. Hedy Lamarr (real name: Hedy Kiesler Mandl), 24, sultry Viennese cinemactress (Extase, Algiers'); and Gene Markey, 43, cinema producer; both for the second time; in Mexicali, Lower Calif...
...110th Street, Manhattan's sveltly starched Fifth Avenue passes the extreme northeast tip of Central Park, plunges into a new world-the teeming, Spanish-speaking slums, or barrio, of Lower Harlem. Mainly inhabited by Puerto Ricans, with a peppering of Cubans, Spaniards, Filipinos, Mexicans, it is one of the poorest, noisiest, brightest, muskiest, most musical and least written-about foreign quarters in Manhattan...
...second proposal in the Report--that the spirit of competition in the lower ranks should extend to the higher departmental positions--is also likely to be beneficial to the entire college. Obviously automatic salary increases, or even the assurance of a steady wage, are not conducive to the same qualitative and quantitative accomplishment that competition tends to produce. The substitution of competitive for automatic standards among professors should therefore result in a higher general level of attainment...
Assistant professors should have a flexible rank and salary, with economics in high ranks for the benefit of lower ones, and the minimum retiring age lowered from...