Word: lowerings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moored by the feet atop the Broad Street marquee of the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel. He was a 15-ft. balloon-rubber elephant with an upraised trunk, a flapping lower lip and a silly smile...
Canada's lower meat prices have long been the envy of U.S. housewives. Last week, T-bone steaks were 70? a lb. in Lethbridge and sirloin was 75? in Ottawa. This was a third less than New Yorkers were paying, but Canadian housewives thought the prices outrageous. In Ottawa they paraded with a papier-mâché cow, demanding a rollback. They would certainly protest more loudly if prices jumped again-as prices certainly would if the government lifted the embargo on beef shipments to the U.S. Yet cattlemen in Calgary, selling choice steers for record prices...
...theories, said Dr. Colbert, of how the molar may have got so far from land, 1) The dead mastodon, enclosed in a block of ice, may have drifted down the Hudson-then a great, glacier-fed river. Some geologists believe that during the Pleistocene Age the ocean was lower because the glaciers that covered much of the land locked up so much water. So 2) the mastodon may have walked to the scallop bank on its own big feet...
...week the exciting news was flashed to Dr. Gilbert Grosvenor, president of the National Geographic Society, from Dr. Arthur A. Allen, head of the expedition: "We have found the curlew's nest." It was at 62° north latitude, 164° west longitude, near Mountain Village on the lower Yukon, 160 miles south of Nome. Dr. Allen promised to bring back intimate motion picture studies of the bristle-thighed curlew at home...
...volume high was to add to his products. For $5 ½ million, he picked up the Harriet Hubbard Ayer line of cosmetics (TIME, July 21), spent another million renovating its factory and hiring Raymond Loewy Associates to dress up its packaging and display. For $1.2 million, Luckman added a lower-priced cosmetic line (Luxor) to be sold through drugstores...