Word: lowers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Mass production is greatly responsible for high American standards of living, Ford claimed in a speech last night at the Business School. Lower unit costs and larger markets are direct results of assembly-line manufacturing, he said...
...Bill: "Nobody is worrying much. It's only when you're in debt that you start worrying, and I don't know anyone who is in debt." Crop prospects are good. Said Farmer Horton: "I don't look for prices to go a whole lot lower. We're not alarmed." "Nope, things don't look too bad," echoed Mrs. Horton, shutting the door of her new $385 refrigerator and flicking on the fluorescent lights in the kitchen...
...Majesty Queen Mary, 81, was still getting around well enough to inspect some converted London flats being occupied by lower-income businesswomen...
...news that Radcliffe tuition would also jump from $525 to $600 immediately followed announcement of the Harvard increase, since under terms of the basic agreement between the two schools Radcliffe's tuition rate "may not be lower than that of Harvard...
...well back before the war: the fact that American builders cannot afford to put up housing for people who need it. Even in the depression year of 1933, with an estimated 5,000,000 vacant dwelling units, there was a 20 to 30 percent shortage of housing facilities for lower income groups. The causes for this condition continue, most important being the high cost of building materials and capital, ancient and discriminatory building codes, and restrictive measures by unions and contractors. Wartime full employment pushed the shortage up to include middle priced housing, necessitating controls to stop soaring rents...