Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...readjust and lower rail and water rates...
...long after receipt of the news in the U. S., reporters crossed the threshold of Mr. Gilbert's office in lower Manhattan, but he was "too busy to comment." Later, however, he unbent, issued a statement...
...Harper Junior High School Chicago, there was trouble. The schoo' had been changed from an ordinary eight-grade grammar school to a new type called "junior high" school because it excluded the lower grades. Pupil; belonging in the lower grades were told upon reporting, to go to different "feeder" (lower grade) schools in other parts of the city. They went home instead, told their parents. The parent; stormed Harper, milled about its halls demanded of Principal Harrower reason why their children had to leave the neighborhood to attend school, thus risking their lives in Chicago traffic thus wasting time...
...meteorologist of the U. S. Weather Bureau happened to be looking out of the window of his office building in lower Manhattan. His view was across the harbor towards Governor's Island...
...Mege-Mourees, a French scientist, invented margarine as a substitute for butter, by churning beef fat with milk. The product was called oleomargarine. In 1906, vegetable oils were first substituted for the oleo oils, to lower the price and improve the product. Up till this time, margarine was considered only a nasty substitute for butter; good grocers would not sell it, and some sellers were arrested for handling it. Its only lure lay in its cheapness...