Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other companies followed Kohler's lead, inflation would be lessened and the price of everything from automobiles to hairpins would be much lower...
...Chiefly because admission to low-rent projects is controlled by the city, which sets an arbitrary income level for tenant families. As they rise on the economic ladder, the better-off families must move out, making room at the bottom for those whose economic and social levels are ever lower. There the gangs thrive, for as one Youth Board official says: "Wherever you have great population mobility and disrupted population areas, gangs spring up to replace the broken stability of the group." Adds a Brooklyn junior high school assistant principal: "The kids reflect the adults and the world they live...
...glitter to the interior. Stone hung a mesh of thousands of sparkling, gold-anodized aluminum disks from the lower spokes of the roof. The hub, a tension ring 63 ft. across and weighing 25 tons, is dramatically suspended in midair and open to the sky above the central pool. To give the structure the maximum look of lightness, a trellis of light steel straps was used to hold the 42-ft.-high plastic walls rigid against the wind. Says Stone: "I'm not given to flexing my structural muscles publicly. But you can't say this building doesn...
...quality and comfort between low-priced and high-priced cars narrowed. Cheaper cars picked up more horsepower (Chevrolet offers 280 h.p. today, about the same as the 1955 Cadillac). Once major mechanical improvements were the exclusive property of more expensive autos, e.g., Oldsmobile's automatic shift; now lower-priced models have all of them. Among the lower-priced cars, it is the highest-priced models that are doing best. Ford sales are down, but its Thunderbird and Fairlane are selling best-to many people who a few years ago would have bought a middle-priced car. Sales of Chevrolet...
What labor has not learned is that just as businessmen must suffer from reduced business and lower profits, so labor must also bear some of the cost of a business downturn. Businessmen fear that the U.S. will not be on solid ground for an upturn until the wage spiral is broken, and productivity, which has not been rising as fast as wage rates, catches up. Said Industrialist and longtime Federal Reserve Chairman Marriner Eccles: "Organized labor has already jeopardized its interests by pricing many of its goods and services right out of the market...