Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Policeman Kennedy, on the other hand, is against gangs, period. He makes no distinction between boppers and defensives. Two summers ago, after the Youth Board arranged a cool and helped allot turf to Lower East Side Puerto Ricans and Negroes who had shot up two youngsters in a rumble, the commissioner passed on a pointed order to his department: "You shall not enter into treaties, concordats, compacts or agreements of appeasement. You shall meet violence with sufficient force, legally applied, to bring violators to justice. Every man, woman and child has the right to use the streets of this city...
...essential part of anesthesia in open heart operations-was described by Beverly Hills Anesthesiologist Milton J. Marmer last week. The result, Dr. Marmer told the A.M.A. convention, was to permit the use of chemical anesthesia so light that one teen-age patient could be awakened while the lower right chamber of her heart was open. After the drastic surgery, she made a good recovery with only slight pain...
...Last week the SEC enlightened them. It discovered that Wolfson had sold all his A.M.C. stock while publicly proclaiming his great faith in the company. Then he and associates had sold short at least 150,000 shares, i.e., sold borrowed stock in the expectation of buying it back at lower prices. After that, charged the SEC, they had made "false and misleading statements," and put out "bogus information" to drive down the price of the stock so that they could cover their short interest. The SEC got a restraining order in court to prevent Wolfson from what it termed fraudulent...
...first, few companies saw a commercial market for the aerosol cans because their welded steel walls, necessary to hold their high pressure, made them too heavy (1 lb.). But as Du Pont developed lower-pressure gases, the cans became much lighter, and the aerosol industry started to boom...
...college in Tokyo, a coarse painter friend introduces Yozo to "the mysteries of drink, cigarettes, prostitutes, pawnshops and left-wing thought." For a young man whose will is as weak as his life drive, this strange combination paves the road to the lower depths. Yozo has an affair with a waitress, but fluffs his end of their suicide pact. Scrabbling for a living as a second-rate cartoonist, he is kept, for a time, by a woman journalist. To keep himself in cheap gin, the cartoonist sinks to pornography. Toward novel's end, Yozo is even ready to make...