Word: lows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Steel mills ran at 74% of capacity, maintained that rate into December. Industrial inventories of steel dropped to an eight-year low, making prospects bright for future production increase...
...apparently outselling the completely redesigned Chevy, whose manufacturer was harder hit by strikes than Ford, has had trouble getting enough cars to dealers. Not until January will Chevy production catch up to Ford. Ford's orders are double last year's, dealers are down to a low 21-day inventory, and Ford says it is having a tough time meeting demand. Boasted Ford General Sales Manager Walter J. Cooper: "Ford will outsell any other make in the fourth quarter...
...Foes. Though the two countries are political friends, they are hot rivals in pursuit of U.S. investments. The Belgians are quick to offer U.S. prospects plenty of credit at 3% or 4% (and sometimes less) v. the usual Dutch rate of 5%. On the other hand, the Dutch trumpet low wages (industrial average: 57? per hour), which are on a par with those in Italy, almost 20% below wages in Germany, more than 25% below rates in Belgium, France, Britain. But Belgium has a ready rebuttal: higher productivity. Reports the Organization for European Economic Co-Operation: "The Netherlands started from...
...meeting last week in Manhattan, stockholders took advantage of their new rights to question Burger on A. & P.'s profit margins, heard that they are 1.06% on the dollar, lowest of any top food chain. Grumbled one stockholder: "Isn't that too low?'' Replied Burger: "The company does not believe in profiteering on food. The food business is not a gold mine, and you cannot mine gold from...
...took over the whirring, still-experimental cavalry of the sky. The general loved his "choppers," once said: "Like Wellington's cavalry, the helicopter can strike like a wolfpack and bite. It can slice and run, pull back and hit the other side. A chopper can be as low as a man on a horse...