Word: lowest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once, the two philosophers were names that made news. "Ye gods!" a nobleman of Paris exclaimed. "Everywhere I go, I hear talk of nobody but this Rousseau and this Diderot . . . People of the lowest sort, people who do not even own their own houses, who live on the fourth floor . . ." Today, except for a few scholars, people talk a good deal less about Diderot than they do of Rousseau. Students who learn of Diderot in college are apt to classify him as one of the great French Encyclopedists, learn too little of his novels, plays and essays. If they remembered...
...consumers, there was a cheery note: sliding food prices had caused another drop in the BLS cost-of-living index. It was off 0.8% to 172.2 (1935-39 = 100), lowest in five months...
This week, Chicago's Admiral Corp. announced that it would put out a console combination (radio, phonograph and ten-inch televiewer) at $399, by far the lowest-priced combination to date. Admiral's President Ross Siragusa said his company would soon follow up with cheaper models down the line. Other manufacturers conceded that ten-inchers, which now sell for $325 to $375, would have to be slashed and other models generally reduced to meet competition. Some dealers were already advertising "no charge for installation," "free inside antenna" and "90day free service" in an effort to clear their decks...
...welcome. Food, which had risen so much higher than anything else, was finally dropping enough to be a help to budget-bound housewives; meat, butter, eggs, etc. were all down. Dun & Bradstreet's weekly index of the wholesale food price (per pound) of 31 items slid to $6.33, lowest in 17 months, and 14% below July's alltime high...
...city elections were due to be held last Sunday. The Communists had taken a sore beating in the last elections (1946), winning only 20% of the popular vote and placing only 26 of their men on the 130-member Assembly. Now, with their prestige at its lowest ebb, they could not afford another free election. So Marshal Vasily Sokolovsky informed the Western commanders that Russia would boycott the Sunday elections; there would be no balloting in the Soviet sector...