Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would be pulled down and moved west to the Saar's French frontier. In anticipation of the day when the mark replaced the franc, Volkswagen dealers alone booked 7,000 advance orders. Also heavy were orders for German TV, radio and appliances, which are priced 30% to 40% lower than French models...
...neared, there was a sudden realization by the Saarlanders that they would lose many of the social benefits they had enjoyed under the French welfare state. Though it could be argued that lower German prices would help compensate them, some wage earners muttered that their much-prized German nationality may cost them as much as 20% of their pay after taxes. Such complaints led some West German newspapers, in commenting on the "Little Reunification" with the Saar, to ask soberly whether 17 million East Germans might one day be similarly reluctant to give up Communist welfare privileges for a free...
More and more apparent to polio researchers is the fact that the disease no longer hits communities as a whole, but seems to localize among lower economic groups. The reason: slum dwellers have usually not been vaccinated, while higher income groups have (TIME...
...index of building-materials prices jumped 2.7% between January and June, against a 2% gain for the whole of 1958. But other prices were holding steady. Sears. Roebuck, Montgomery Ward. Spiegel, and Aldens Inc. announced that their fall catalogues will show no overall price increase, and some prices are lower...
...course this "puffed man" is not quite the same as the Flagstaff who inhabited Henry IV. There he had much nobility, and always emerged victorious. Here he is noble in name only; his I.Q. is perceptibly lower, and he always comes out vanquished. But he's still a lovable old wretch, even though "given to fornications, and to taverns and sack and wine and metheglins, and to drinkings and swearings and starings, pribbles and prabbles...