Word: lows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shock wave, like a thousand backfires, rumbled up the beach and welled over the spectators. MacNabb roared into his headset: "She's still going! She's still going! She's out of sight, and she's still going!" Bursting through the low clouds, Big Annie flashed into view again for a second or two, then bored into the clouds at 8,000 ft., her course true, her engines in harmony. "Damn!" yelled a man falling from his perch to the sand. "She'll make it!" Cried MacNabb wildly to an associate: "If you weren...
...move, prompted by the death of Tennessee Democrat Jere Cooper (see MILESTONES), followed normal seniority rules, but still it was a reward that no colleague could deny Wilbur Mills. In 19 years as a Congressman, Lawyer Mills thoroughly studied his economics, got a reputation as a spokesman for low-income groups and small business, yet is a model of prudence with his constituents' tax dollar...
MONETARY CRISIS in Philippines will pinch Americans doing business there. To stop drain on dollar reserves, now at alltime low of $145 million, Philippine government has told U.S. subsidiaries that they may not send their dollar profits back home. And to check big imports, Manila now demands that local businessmen deposit 50% to 200% of value of their imports in advance...
...October, when the price was about 19, he sold 50,000 shares to his wife in a complicated deal for estate purposes. Last month, when the price was as low as 15⅛, Young unloaded another 21,700 shares for tax purposes. Wall Street insiders figured that Bob Young's loss on the second transaction alone topped $100,000. Some of the Central directors who bought shares to help Young have also lost heavily. But the biggest loss has been incurred by Alleghany Corp., the holding company which helped Young take over the Central. Under Young's chairmanship...
Silverman blamed "inept" film leaders for their "ostrich viewpoint" about TV, roasted hard-up studio heads for peddling pre-1948 film libraries to television for a "ridiculously low price." The only solution, according to Silverman: post-1948 films must not be sold unless TV pays enough money "to maintain a steady flow of important pictures...