Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some of the bad habits belong to labor: wage increases not based upon increases in productivity mean higher prices, lower sales, fewer jobs. "The pattern of spectacular competitive wage increases is relatively new in American labor. It arose after 1946 because of special postwar conditions...
...five and 42 passengers, sped along Airway Victor Eight, bound from Los Angeles for Denver at about 305 knots. The Civil Aeronautics Authority, controlling the airliner, had no knowledge of the jet; the Nellis A.F.B. tower, controlling the jet, knew nothing of the airliner. The jet, in penetrating the lower altitudes, had to break through the commercial airlane- as military aircraft do all the time. Only wild chance could bring the two planes together...
...Secondary and, especially, elementary education are becoming more and more accepted by girls, and girls' colleges, as a career that offers challenge and prestige," Herzog stated. But, he said, at least half of the applications came from men. "They are no longer considering secondary education as just a lower degree," he noted...
...remainder of the varsity lineup will comprise Al Goldman, Fred Vinton, and Bill Wood. Their Tarheel counterparts at fourth, fifth, and sixth positions will be Mac Clark, Ben Makepeace, and Bobby Lockett. The North Carolina trio is exceptionally good for the lower half of the lineup and could very well provide the margin for a Tarheel triumph...
Stanley Holloway, a lower middle-class and long-enduring husband, returns home one evening slightly lubricated--to celebrate the night he got his wife in a "trouble" which took three years to develop...