Word: lows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Japan, which would like to get Okinawa and the rest of the Ryukyu chain back some day, reaction was sharp. "Utter contempt for voters' rights," said Asahi Shimbun. "The prestige of American administration on Okinawa has reached an alltime low in Japanese eyes," said the Japan Times. Summed up one Japanese: "It is unAmerican, and counter to the democratic principles the Americans have taught...
Pork rationing, long in force in other cities, was extended to Peking itself. Farmers were unrationed, but they were getting less than half the pork they had eaten in the past; the state bought their pigs at fixed low prices through the purchasing monopoly, sold them back through the state sales monopoly at a price few peasants could afford. In the cities there was often not enough to fill even the ration. In Shanghai people got up at 3 a.m. to get at the head of the queues in the pork market...
...thumping rhythm of an intense promotional campaign by RCA Victor, Jennie just finished a month of bouncing about the country buttering up disk jockeys and celebrating the release of her first LP (called Jennie, and decorated with a torchlit photo of its star nervously inhabiting a low-cut black gown...
...hire linebackers that aren't mean," admits Ramsey readily. "And the first few days on the practice field in 1953 you could tell that Schmidt was a man we could use. But unlike some linebackers, he's clean at being mean." Says Schmidt simply: "I tackle low and hard. There's only one reason for a high, crashing tackle-to hurt a man. It gives me just as much satisfaction to nail a hard-running back on the line of scrimmage as it does for a back to make a long run and score a touchdown...
...years; all customs duties were abolished on machinery and other goods for new companies. Small business was encouraged by a government finance agency providing loans up to $80,000, big business by another state agency with $32 million capital and total lending authority of $160 million at low 4% (average Italian money rate: 12%) interest terms. The government also set up an apprentice school to turn out 70,000 trained industrial workers annually...