Word: lowest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only express my disappointment--to put it at the lowest--that we are now shown the door, with nothing but reproaches and abuse...
...pretty American girlhood as one could wish; Cornel Wilde is a fine young man, ambitious, though a little wild; while the minor characters could be transferred to another such movie as easily as a Ford part can be replaced. At best, they bustle through the plot using the lowest common denominator of human action, and at worst they are a bunch of Martians imitating home sapiens, having seen them once, from a lunar distance. So when the technicolor and Maureen O'Hara have cased to dazzle his eyes, the movie-geer will start to fidget in his upholstered chair...
...that teachers are "making the greatest financial gains in their history." By next fall salaries will be up an average of $400 a year. The biggest boost was given by Indiana, where the average teacher's average pay has jumped from $2,011 to $3,000. Mississippi, the lowest-paying state, has raised its average salary from $875 a year...
Advance. The best news was a sharp drop in T.B. deaths. In the first five months of 1947, the T.B. death rate among industrial insurance policyholders fell to 34.9 per 100,000-11% below the same period last year and the lowest mortality on record. T.B., once the No. 1 killer, is now No. 7. But the disease is still one of the nation's costliest ($100,000,000 a year for treatment alone), the most widespread (500,000 active cases), and the No. 1 killer in the age group...
...Silver Lining. Foreign silver in New York dropped 5? an ounce, bringing the price down to 59¾?, lowest since September 1945. Yet the U.S. Treasury, thanks to the Senate's Silver Bloc, must buy up all newly mined silver offered by U.S. mines at 90.5? an ounce. Taxpayers take the loss...