Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lower the drinking age to 16-tax money will put everybody right back on their feet...
...Sweden had a political crisis sharp enough to force the King to dissolve Parliament. But last week the Socialist government of Premier Tage Erlander, whose party has held power alone or as masters of a coalition almost uninterruptedly since 1932, fell by an adverse vote in the Swedish lower chamber. At issue was expansion of Sweden's welfare state, which already provides more cradle-to-grave benefits than any other European nation. Following his defeat, Erlander asked King Gustaf VI Adolf to dissolve Parliament...
...which the Federal discount rate has dropped from 3½% to 1¾%. Other forms of short-term commercial paper, such as 30-to-90-day notes, also dropped ¼% to 1¼%. But for small borrowers and for consumers buying on installments, there were few signs of lower rates. Unless these rates also start to fall soon, the FRB is expected to ease credit still further and force them down...
Agency Director Allen Dulles: "They will buy anything, trade anything and dump anything if it advances Communism or helps to destroy the influence of the West." Last month, for example, Russia moved heavily into the British aluminum market with lower prices (TIME, April 7). Russia has also sold tin, zinc and soybean products below market prices, is selling trucks, autos and machinery in the Middle East at prices the West cannot match...
...fail to reconcile a brilliant teen-age boy to the tragic quota of life. Loved and even coddled by his suburban parents, he does not ask what's-in-it-for-me but what-does-it-have-to-offer-for-anyone? After a fearful tour of the lower depths of London, he has his answer: nothing. His suicide will seem improbable only to grownups who have forgotten the questionings of their own youth. ¶In The Climate of the Lost, a 14-year-old daughter of divorced parents falls victim to the selfish misunderstanding of her mother. Unfolded...