Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...violent new storm boiled up off the Louisiana coast. Mixing its Gulf moisture with the cold arctic air, it swept north and east, dumping the season's heaviest snowfall from Jackson, Miss, on up into Maine. Temperatures sank to a bitter subfreezing all along the path, sank lower in its wake...
...avoid most of this waste of energy by burning their fuel very fast-in a few seconds, if desirable. Instead of struggling painfully off the ground as liquid-fuel rockets do, the solid-fuel bird can be gone in a flash. Its higher speed while still in the dense lower atmosphere costs something in aerodynamic drag, but since solid-fuel rockets have no pumps, valves or plumbing, they are more compact and can slip through the air more easily...
...upper left hand corner of the cage. The nets were again open, as Cleary had faked Pitts out of position. Dave Vietze scored the first of his two goals less than two minutes later when he took a pass from Fischer and beat the B.C. goalie to the lower left-hand corner...
...months ago by urging a voluntary one-year wage freeze to hold prices down (TIME, Dec. 16). Gray's argument for wage restraint also applies to the anti-featherbedding code: high construction costs are against the interests of building-trades workers, because high costs curb demand, and lower demand means fewer jobs...
...Wichita, Kans., where the two biggest companies-Cessna and Beech-account for 70% of all the dollars spent on light planes. Between them, they offer customers twelve different models, priced from $7,000 to $210,000. Beech concentrates mainly on higher-priced planes, while Cessna rules the middle and lower brackets. And though Beech leads in total business, with 1957 sales of $104 million (66% military), Cessna is the world's biggest private-plane builder, with commercial sales of 2,489 planes worth $33 million (total sales: $70 million). First-quarter fiscal 1958 sales: a peacetime-record $20.7 million...