Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...substations outside Atlanta. Somehow, the rod touched a live wire carrying 11,000 volts. Kilpatrick was savagely burned and lost consciousness. Doctors at the Emory hospital doubted that he would live and it was touch and go for weeks. With third-degree burns penetrating to the bones of his lower left leg and right foot, Kilpatrick mercifully did not regain full consciousness for two weeks. By then, Surgeon William C. McGarity had already amputated his left leg below the knee. His right foot seemed likely to be lost. It was also doubtful whether he might ever regain...
Louverie or Lower? Bazin makes the dramatic history of how the roof came into being almost as interesting as the works housed beneath it. The original Louvre may go back to the 5th century. Etymologists speculate that the name may come from louverie (a meeting place of wolf hunters), or from a leper colony, or from a Saxon fortress (lower). Still to be seen in the present foundations are remains of the mighty fortress that King Philip Augustus erected on the site about 1190. But the Louvre of today owes its origins to France's great Renaissance prince...
...seven weeks, Kilpatrick's right calf and left stump were joined. He could not move his lower limbs as much as a hundredth of an inch. He was anchored by weights and pins were inserted in the bone. Then for four weeks stump and foot were joined. The flap took. Kilpatrick could have saved himself great pain if he had simply asked the doctors to amputate the right foot. "But it's worth all this to a man," says Dr. Kelly, "to have a leg and be able to hobble...
...buildup is likely to be slow and cautious. For some time businessmen have tended toward lower inventories because heavy inventories are expensive and improved transportation and increased industrial capacity have made materials easy to get. Many retail stores are ordering smaller quantities more often, getting by with a 30-day or 60-day supply instead of the 90-day supply they might have carried a few years ago. Manufacturers are doing the same. Steel customers are buying more of their steel from warehouses instead of directly from the mills, even though prices are as much as 30% higher, because...
...customers to come in; seldom have they gone out and solicited the most likely customers-newlyweds, new parents, new homeowners. Yet furniture men are the first to admit that promotion alone is not enough. The real remedy for the industry's ailments is to produce better-styled, lower-priced furniture. Kroehler recently brought out a medium-priced line (see cut) that follows the new trend of matching pieces for all rooms, and it is selling well. With it, a family can furnish a two-bedroom house for less than $2,000. Furniture men will have an increasingly tough time...