Word: lowness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Secretariat, a 39-story office skyscraper towering above the long low assembly building, looked more like an ice-cream sandwich. Its north and south walls were the ice cream-solid bands of marble. The east and west walls were corrugated expanses of blue-green glass. Each wall consisted of 2,700 windows held by a tracery of aluminum. Their effect, said the FORUM, would be that of "a mosaic reflecting the sky from a thousand facets...
Sinking Prices. In the drop, some bears unquestionably made a quick neat profit-since the "short interest" was already at its peak (TIME, May 30). As the market opened this week, it dropped again. A test was at hand of the mystic level of 163.12, the low mark made in the 1946 crash, which all subsequent drops had failed to penetrate...
...averages failed to break through that "floor," bulls and chartists thought the market would bounce up. If it did go through, bears thought it might slide on down to the "floor" below-i.e., the 1945 low mark...
Last week, in his San Mateo, Calif. home, Amadeo Peter Giannini died of a heart attack. Behind him he left the biggest banking empire in the world ($6 billion in assets and 522 branches), but a personal fortune estimated as low as $300,000. A.P. had never been interested in merely making money...
Slightly French (Columbia) is a tedious rehash of the old Pygmalion theme. This time the cultural spit & polish are applied to a low-life carnival dancer (Dorothy Lamour) by an egotistical Hollywood director (Don Ameche) who transforms her into a phony French film star...