Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only 25,000 votes -and the First District does not include his areas of greatest strength. But Foss's greatest handicap this year is the same that got George McGovern elected in the first place: the Midwestern protest against Republican Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson for proposing lower farm subsidies-which has not subsided one whit...
When he heard that a portrait of Confederacy President Jefferson Davis, onetime (1853-57) U.S. Secretary of War, was gathering dust in a storage room in the lower depths of the Pentagon, Florida's Democratic Congressman Robert Sikes took umbrage. "Old Jeff," cried he, "shouldn't be banned to the basement." Once part of the decor in the Defense Secretary's office, Old Jeff's portrait was rehung last week, upstairs in a prominent spot on the wall of an endless Pentagon hall. Still unknown: the identity of the carpetbagger who had kicked Jeff Davis downstairs...
...quarterly dividend. The railroad's earnings had plummeted along with the stock, which reached a low of 13¼ last week. Bob Young, who had borrowed heavilyto buy the 100,000 shares of Central stock he owned, was forced by lenders to sell as the price skidded lower. By year's end he had unloaded all but a few thousand of his remaining shares "to take tax losses." Friends insisted Young's own personal finances were in good shape, but it was a bitter blow for him to lose so much money on his own road...
...Board last August gave a majestic, bureaucratic answer. It was already conducting something called the General Passenger Fare Investigation, planned for hearings to go leisurely on until 1959. As they droned on, platoons of economists racked up 5,000 pages of testimony proving that 1) fares are now 9% lower than in 1949, while costs are astronomically higher, 2) the airlines cannot raise money to buy jet fleets. But all this failed to excite CAB. Not a single one of the five board members even bothered to show up at the hearings...
While there were some expensive ships to dream about, such as the 46-ft. Wheeler sports fisherman at $60,000, the bulk of the boats were designed for the middle-and lower-income groups, who do most of the buying. More than half the boats were for outboards, which have been souped up-and quieted down. Kiekhaefer Motor Co. showed off its Mark 78, the most powerful outboard (70 h.p.) on display (price: $960). Evinrude and Johnson exhibited the first four-cylinder V-type outboards - 50-h.p. engines priced at $750 to $850-which, they bragged, were almost free...