Word: lowest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Backing up these assertions with facts and figures, the analysis points out that the Crimson hit .214 last year, lowest in the circuit, and scored only 43 runs in 12 contests, less than four tallies per game. Captain Lou Clay and infielder Bart Harvey are the only two returning players to average .250 at the plate last season...
Last week the House Naval Affairs Committee began looking for war babies who might not have heard about the pact. It is necessary only to look at the quotations on the New York Stock Exchange (lowest in seven years) to see that business as a whole is not profiteering. But there are always exceptions. Certainly no party to any non-profiteering covenant, written or tacit, was Jack & Heintz, Inc., of Bedford, Ohio, manufacturers of airplane starters...
...this general lowering atmosphere,* Congressional moves to suspend SEC's death sentence for the duration did not even help hard-pressed utility shares-they sank to the lowest levels ever. North American, Public Service of New Jersey, Southern California Edison and similar stocks fell so far that they yield 10 to 15% at current dividend rates, sell at one-fifth to one-half their highs in depressed...
...tight bottleneck in Army contracts was the custom among Army procurement men of giving orders to the lowest bidder. Nelson told procurement officers hereafter to negotiate all contracts, place orders where they will get quickest action...
...well who plays out the classic routines of all picaresque heroes, with a strong dash of erotic chile con carne seasoned with moral saws and liberalistic satire. The Parrot disregards a wise father, is spoiled by a booby mother, wastes her fortune, sinks to the lowest flophouses and gambling dens of Mexico City, where "there are but two rules: luck and cheating. The former is more lawful, but the latter is surer." In jail the prisoners rob him and empty their slop pots over him (Poll cheerfully reports himself as clown, coward, butt and skunk...