Word: lows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high skill at one job instead of puttering at several. Production per man-hour went up 39%, cost went down 10% a pound, and workers had more free time (for tea, etc.) on the job. Yet in the textile industry as a whole the man-hour output remains abysmally low...
Misreporting hit a new low on the West Coast. Los Angeles papers, with a two-hour time differential in their favor, can rush eastern returns into print before the polls on the Coast close. The temptation for pro-Dewey papers to stampede some voters aboard the bandwagon was irresistible. Cried a headline in Hearst's afternoon Herald & Express: DEWEY VICTORY SEEN AS VOTE LEAD GROWS. The fact: some small New England towns had gone for Dewey. A later headline: DEWEY SWEEPING THE COUNTRY. The tabloid Mirror was equally sly with EARLY TREND GIVES DEWEY LEAD. It was based...
...Jones industrial average was down to 178.94, a drop of 10.82, wiping out the gains of the pre-election rally of the last five weeks. It was the market's worst four days since the spring of 1940 (when the Nazis rolled over the Low Countries...
...good news that tutorial has come back to the Economics Department. Until this new move, the Department seemed to have dropped the undergraduate's status to an all time low, so far as the Division of History, Government, and Economics goes. This was brought about by the Department's unsuccessful attempt the year before to have its cake and eat it. At that time there was a "course" giving credit to students writing a thesis, but including no tutorial at all, which was a combination that the Faculty's Committee on Educational Policy did not consider cricket, since the requirement...
...route to Elkton, Md., where the two youths felt the age limit would be sufficiently low to allow their marriage with Joanne Forrester, 13, and her sister Kathleen, 15, they were apprehended by local authorities in Philadelphia and held for the parents' arrival...