Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...presidential fact-finding board reported last week on the trouble. The board made no recommendations. It sidestepped the nature of hazards but did note that X-10 actually had a lower accident rate than the other two plants...
Total cost of the trip, including transportation, will be $500 per student a figure considerably lower than the expenses for most other European tour and projects announced so far, Richard said...
...increase in tuition income has therefore loomed as a last resort. About half of this increase will be made necessary by the drop in enrollment next fall. Whether or not it is wise to lower enrollment at this time in view of its effect on the tuition rate is a complicated issue with strong arguments on both sides. But the fact remains that even if the student body remained at its present size, a substantial tuition rise would be necessary...
...trustees interviewed some 25 candidates for provost, found most of them reluctant to step into the pattern she had laid down for them. Then they hit on Pierpont. The new head, a University of Richmond graduate (he flunked out of Johns Hopkins), was a headmaster of the lower form at a Baltimore school, later bossed a World War II Navy school. The first time he saw Avon Old Farms, he said, "I felt as if I had walked into the middle of a Charles Addams cartoon...
...things were not much better elsewhere. Throughout the industry, January and February sales were an estimated 20% lower than in the same period of 1947, which were considerably lower than in 1946. Said the head of one big Midwestern factory: "The situation is bilious...