Word: lowers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...both houses, approved and sent to the President a conference committee's postal-rate-and-pay bill. The bill would raise salaries for most postal employees 7.5% (compared to the 6% raise Ike asked), would also provide a three-year cost-of-living raise for postal workers in lower civil service grades. To finance the increases, postal rates go up, e.g., on Aug. 1, under the bill, the cost of domestic letters would jump from 3? to 4?, domestic air mail from 6? to 7?, postcards from 2? to 3?. Second-class rates (magazines and newspapers) will rise...
Though he wore a handkerchief mask over the lower part of his face, the tall man in mirror-type sunglasses seemed to show a workmanly patience at his job. For more than an hour one dark morning last week, he painstakingly measured out puddles of gasoline in each of the five dining rooms of Allgauer's Fireside restaurant in Lincolnwood, a suburb northwest of Chicago. While a stubby accomplice leveled an automatic at seven late workers and busboys, he methodically laid fuses of gasoline-soaked toilet paper from pool to pool. When, at 3:45 a.m.. things were...
...there are some dark months ahead for autos. Dealers now have about 760,000 cars on hand, hope they clean them out before the introduction of 1959 models. To help clear the decks, the industry is expected to operate at an even lower rate than usual during the summer, may shut down earlier, stay closed longer when it retools for 1959 models. Counting heavily on a cleanup of the '58 models and the popularity of the new '59 cars, Ward's Automotive Reports hopefully predicted that "factory unemployment gloom will be quickly followed by a fourth-quarter...
Attracting the customer not only involves redesigning and lower prices, but a return to "the lost art of selling," said R. S. Ingersoll, president of Borg-Warner Corp. "In this connection the automobile industry has been the whipping boy of this recession. But the same thing is happening in other industries too. Today, there is a re-emphasis on healthy, hardhitting selling...
...expect housing starts in 1958 to rise 10% above last year to some 1,100,000 new units. The majority of home builders at the meeting thought business is better now than last year; they look for further improvement over the next six months, particularly in the market for lower-priced houses. In assessing their individual prospects, they were even more optimistic: they predicted their own businesses would...