Word: lows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...battle broke, it became a fire fight between the attacking Communists and our escorts. The Nationalists later claimed all but one of the attacking PTs and gunboats sunk, but I saw no explosions. One of the Nationalist gunboats got hit and was towed back to the Pescadores lying low in the water. The LSM also turned back, its troops and supplies still on board...
FOOD PRICES are down to year's low at wholesale. Shopping basket of 31 basic foods (1 lb. of each) costs $6.39, down from April high...
Addressing a schoolteachers' meeting in Baltimore, Johns Hopkins' President Milton S. Eisenhower (TIME, Sept. 8) said that one reason U.S. educational standards are uncomfortably low is that some schools teach too much. "We know colleges that teach from 3,000 to 4,000 courses," he explained. Higher educational institutions should "cut the number of courses in half and concentrate on those they do with distinction. No college can be all things to all people...
...smells of speed blistered the white Bonneville salt flats of Utah. Engines revved up to blatting roars. Whiffs of alcohol and nitromethane mingled with the tang of high-octane gas. With anxious care, some 200 men in oil-blotched coveralls coaxed their handmade cars to bellowing perfection-long, low, lean monsters with as many as three engines crowded beneath their sleek hoods. In the tenth annual speed trials that ended last week, the world's hottest hot-rods were shooting for 300 m.p.h. on the world's fastest race course...
...changing their tune because an outpouring of new statistics showed a sudden and simultaneous hardening in the major muscles of the economy-capital expenditures, sales, new orders, inventories (see below). Every major industry counted in the Federal Reserve Board's index of production has boosted output from the low of last spring. The Fed felt recovery had progressed far enough to permit two more of its district banks, Minneapolis and Chicago, to raise their discount rates from 1¾% to 2%. Wall Street snorted bullishly at these figures, at midweek sent Dow-Jones industrials to the year...