Word: lowerings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...higher profits of U.S. Steel require one of two actions-either lower prices to discourage inflation or increase wages to encourage inflation...
Pork Chop Hill (Melville; United Artists). Silent over the battlefield hang the stars of a clear spring night. Suddenly a loudspeaker, shockingly close, blares among the forward positions: "WELCOME TO THE MEAT GRINDER!" The U.S. infantrymen, slogging up the lower slopes of Pork Chop Hill in central Korea, skip a heartbeat and a stride, and then move grimly forward-^into the meat grinder. And the audience moves with them into this heart-racking film translation of S.L.A. Marshall's classic report on Pork Chop Hill (TIME, Nov. 19, 1956)-that inopportune Thermopylae where the American fighting man wrote...
...speeding settlement of Du Pont-G.M. case (TIME, June 27, 1957 et seq.), aiding in overall antitrust enforcement. But Treasury and Justice oppose as too liberal bill to free Du Pont stockholders from paying regular income tax on G.M. stock when they receive it, require only payment of lower capital gains tax rate when G.M. stock is sold...
...Things are not that simple in the U.S., and in Author Packard's scheme there are Real U and Semi-U, both belonging to the college-bred "Diploma Elite"; then there are the "Supporting Classes,'' in turn subdivided into Limited-Success. Working Class and Real Lower (in his definitions, Packard rarely gets much more precise than to say that the Diploma Elite consists of "the big, active, successful people who pretty much run things" ). This structure, asserts Packard, is becoming increasingly rigid: within it. people are continually straining "to surround themselves with visible evidence of the superior...
...stands now, the Class of 1963 will have slightly over 1200 students, 50 of whom will be commuters. This figure is actually slightly lower than the "top" figure, which was set at about 1220 by Dean Bundy in late April, when the Admissions Committee began its task of evaluating its thousands of applicants...