Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Murray Hill. Next day things were different; the third party's leaders were among friends. Happily they journeyed back to Manhattan to preside over the official opening of their headquarters in a brownstone mansion on lower Park Avenue, just an indignant glance from the Union League Club...
...Molly is, artistically, the same composite of lower and middle class that the Goldbergs are socially. It stands where dialect humor and realistic observation meet-or, more frequently, collide; where characters are a little more than exploited but a great deal less than explained. Atmospherically, the whole thing benefits from a certain warmheartedness; as a human being, Playwright Berg shows her characters a respect that she withholds from them as a writer. But what's worst about her as a writer-what makes her play first commonplace and then dull-is that...
General Electric's Charles E. Wilson sounded disillusioned. Two months ago he had slashed the prices of about half G.E.'s products (TIME, Jan 12), hoping to start a "chain reaction" of lower prices from industry and head off an inflationary third round of wage increases from labor. What he got, said he, was sneers and new wage demands from the CIO union at G.E. (which G.E. turned down this week), and price hikes by many another company. Said Wilson: "An expensive gesture...
...used car trade, a boomtown bonanza since 1945, was settling back into being just a business. And for the moment, at least, business was not very good. Since the first of the year, used car prices have fallen between 10 and 20%. Last week, even with lower prices, most used car lots were jammed with bright, shiny secondhand jobs, and sales were pretty much at a standstill...
Then there's always the Skimobile at North Conway and the Aerial Tramway at Cannon Mountain, which provide passengers with magnificent views unobtainable at lower levels...