Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only four weeks after taking the job. "Upon reflection," he wrote the President in longhand, "I have concluded that I must withdraw." His reason: his active service in civil rights' investigations and decisions, after sitting in judgment on civil rights' cases before the Supreme Court, might lower "respect for the impartiality of the federal judiciary." Likely prospect to succeed him: Commission Vice Chairman John A. Hannah, 55, president of Michigan State University and onetime (1953-54) Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower and Personnel...
...razor's-edge upset victory, moved last week to make good on the brave campaign talk of a $500 million tax cut. In a modest beginning, the Tories proclaimed personal income-tax reductions (effective Jan. 1) amounting to $146 million a year, sprinkled mainly in the lower income brackets...
Pettigrew recognized two active types of segregationists--the "violence if necessary" and the "business as usual". He found that the first group, composed of the lower class, would resort to violence because they had neither reputation nor property to lose. The second group would not resort to violence because coming from the upper class, they could lose both...
Then Lyle Guttu turned in the best shot of the night, a hard drill in the lower left-hand corner. B.C. star goalie Al Pitts never had a chance on it. Two minutes later at 15:56 sophomore Gillie scored his first varsity tally, a really heads-up shot on a rebound from defenseman Dan Ullyot...
...Problem. Capital's biggest problem is its route system. Serving 51 cities from New York west to Minneapolis and south to New Orleans, it competes for 80% of its traffic with giants of the airline business-American Airlines and Eastern Air Lines. Against such rugged competition, profits are lower; yet the other lines have choice long hops to balance their route structure. By contrast, Capital shuttles back and forth between cities as close as 50 miles apart, acting almost as a businessman's commuter line with all the extra expenses of many stops...