Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mention his physical plant as a major asset; only a few mentioned extracurricular activities. But their comments spoke volumes: "I am never happy except with superior work." "We simply refuse to accept mediocrity." "We started high and raised our standards from year to year." "When in doubt, give the lower grade...
...Lower Merion High, Ardmore
...Thirds of a Jeep. Petersen concedes that his campaign may not get anywhere "for a long time." Nevertheless, his magazines wield far-reaching influence. By popularizing cars with lower lines and such avant-garde gimmicks as fuel injection systems and dual exhausts, the magazines help stimulate demand for engineering and styling refinements in assembly-line autos (which are rigorously road-tested each year by the editors). In addition, Publisher Petersen, himself an auto mechanic's son, has been a major factor in building a new, $15 million-a-year market for manufacturers of esoteric auto accessories ranging from racing...
...worried about high interest rates that led economists to forecast a slight fourth-quarter decline in the rate (currently $37 billion annually) of expenditures for new plant and equipment, the first drop since the first quarter of 1955. The growing surplus of oil (see below) and the possibility of lower steel production and prices as Lukens Steel dropped the price of plate $8 a ton also had an unsettling effect...
Would the market drop lower still...