Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...than 60% of the vote. But in a battle of young unknowns only last week, Democratic-Farmer-Labor Candidate Eugene Foley, 29, almost upset Republican Albert Quie, 34; Foley lost by only 664 votes out of 87,950 cast. Major reason behind Foley's showing: Benson decisions to lower dairy support prices...
...next 17 years T.R. groped toward power along what one friend called "an eccentric orbit." Shrugging off the wealthy, wellborn friends who warned him that politics was "low," he joined Manhattan's 21st District Republican Club, got elected and re-elected to three rambunctious years in the lower house of the .New York State legislature. In the winter of 1884 T.R.'s wife Alice died in childbirth, and he headed west to the solace of the silent spaces of the North Dakota Territory. "Black care," he said, "rarely sits behind a rider whose pace is fast enough." There...
Johnnie doubts that his improved hearing has altered his style, but Columbia Records' resolutely optimistic Mitch Miller disagrees. "He told me," says Ray, "that my beat is stronger and truer to the notes, my voice register is lower, and my speech is more articulate." Adds Singer Ray, who was rehearsing last week for a European tour: "Thirty-one is a heck of an age to have your voice change...
Odhams' top competitor, George Newnes Ltd. (Woman's Own. Modern Woman), was shrilly trumpeting Woman's Day, due out this month, as its own new entry in the man-catcher sweepstakes. Both will compete directly with their own stablemates. But by offering lower ad rates ($2,800 a color page), based on a guaranteed circulation of 1,000,000 each, the two new magazines expect to attract a flock of would-be advertisers who are being priced out of the women's market...
Heavy snows, high winds and subnormal temperatures last week brought Eastern railroads-and their chilled passengers-their worst disaster in years. Nine inches of snow piled up in Manhattan, 13 inches in Philadelphia, and 14 inches in Washington, D.C., and no icicle-encrusted Lower Slobbovians were ever more solidly snowbound. Groaned one passenger who spent 13½ hours (instead of four) between Washington and New York: "A few inches of snow-and blooey...