Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next thing I could hear," said Logue later, "was Wilson shouting 'Stand up, Logue, stand up, Logue,' in the true, lower-middle-class English fashion." Wilson flailed wildly at Tynan. "You deliberately tried to sabotage the play," he shouted. "I'll stamp you out, Tynan. Literature isn't big enough for both...
...does not exercise due restraint. The customer, I suspect, may be approximately right." ¶ "Most publishers need education in editorial matters. The editorial costs of a newspaper range from 5% to 10% of the total and so the average publisher is likely to assign them to the lower categories-except when it comes to cutting the budget, in which case he is apt to turn first to trimming the editorial items. A campaign of enlightenment seems in order...
...Nevertheless, Wall Street feels that the basis is being laid for a rise in late 1958 and 1959. One clue is the widening spread between stock dividends and bond yields. In July, when stock prices were high, bonds yielded only .32% less than stocks; today, with stock prices much lower (and bond prices higher), stocks pay up to 1.17% more than bonds, are thus more attractive buys...
...University of Texas' index of business activity is 1% ahead of 1957. Department-store sales are down slightly, mainly because of bad weather. But at Atlanta's hard-selling Rich's department store, sales are even with last year. Businessmen count on their growing market, lower labor costs and the efficient new plants built by migrating Northern industry to carry them through the recession without harm. "I take a real deep breath of relief." says Southern Co. President Harlee Branch Jr., whose company still has record demand for electric power, "when I get away from those damned...
...organized labor philosophy that good business or bad, wages-and thus prices-must go up every year. Therefore, steelmen refuse to cut prices, not only because they say it would not improve business, but also because they face an automatic 7% wage increase next July 1; Detroit refuses to lower auto prices largely because it must renegotiate auto contracts this summer, expects that it will have to grant the U.A.W. a boost...