Word: lowerings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when the world wheat famine seemed to assure endless prosperity. Many took delivery simply to resell-and then found that there was little or no profit to be had. At Edmonton fur auctions, ranch mink and ermine prices were down 35%. British Columbia lumbermen were cutting the price of lower grades, and they saw more cuts in prospect...
...last week, in a Quonset-hut reading room on the lower campus of the University of Wisconsin, every seat was taken. It was exam week. Girls in neat sweaters & skirts (the wartime sloppy-joe style was out), men in open shirts and dungarees were giving the books a last hard look...
...corner of his mind and drawing board, Cartoonist Capp is toying with an anti-shmoo. The horrid animal "might very possibly" come from Lower Slobbovia to exterminate the shmoo, and "might very possibly" be called the "nogudnik." But as long as The Life & Times of the Shmoo is a bestseller, the nogudnik will doubtless stay put under the Lower Slobbovia snow...
...longer as simple as that. More mechanization would probably lower mining costs. Unless some of this saving was passed on to the consumer, coal consumption would fall still farther. With oil and coal both plentiful now, high-priced coal is barely able to compete with oil, and oil prices are falling. But there was no sign that Lewis was thinking of lower coal prices...
Their main target was the Hope-Aiken Act (TIME, June 28), under which the Government is free to lower price supports from 90% to 60% of parity after 1950. Led by Georgia's white-haired H. L. Wingate, the Southerners fought a three-day battle behind closed committee doors for a resolution urging Congress to repeal the Hope-Aiken Act, keep price supports at 90% of parity...