Word: lowerings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lyons (born Leonard Sucher on Manhattan's celebrity-spawning Lower East Side) still works as hard as in the days when he landed a job on the New York Post by successfully bombarding established gossipists with unsolicited material. He gets up at 1 p.m., stalks the famous in likely lairs (El Morocco, Toots Shor's, Sardi's, the Colony) until 3 a.m., when he finally sits down to whack out his column before falling into bed at 6 a.m. Said he, on the recent occasion of receiving an honorary doctor of laws degree from Ohio...
...Like their counterparts in Boston, Philadelphia, Buffalo and St. Louis. Pay scales are still lower in the South, range higher in Cleveland, Los Angeles and Minneapolis-St. Paul, to a peak in San Francisco...
...above the rise in the market, held the gain six months later. But a group of 13 companies that split their stock without raising dividends temporarily gained only 5% in price, dropped back 8% below the market level by the end of six months. Nevertheless, in a rising market lower-priced, split stocks tend to move faster than the old shares, as long as the company's outlook is improving...
...price of $1.43. Promptly, competitors encircled Leclerc's store with six new cut-price outlets, dropped his volume to $24,000 a month. Said Leclerc: "I did not come here to make money but to bring down prices. Grenoble families are saving $160,000 a year through new lower prices." To any Frenchman wanting to open a Leclerc-style store, he will teach his selling methods free. His only requirement: they must agree to hold to his policy of low overhead, minimum profit...
...questionnaires will be distributed to upperclassmen in the House dining halls later in the week. The polls will be concerned only with lower group courses, however...