Word: lows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...offering generous tax exemptions to new investors, Operation Bootstrap attracted 169 new plants in the first five years (v. 19 in the previous five years), is now bringing in ten a month. To arguments that Puerto Rico owes its success to its position as a low-wage part of the U.S. customs area and to the free movement of goods between the island and the U.S., Moscoso replied: "Puerto Rico had this same kind of economic relationship with the U.S. from 1917 to 1940−and yet nothing much happened...
Instead of trying to compete with the giants all across the board, it hopes to turn a profit by concentrating on the two areas where sales are climbing fastest : the low-medium price field and the small-car market that foreign automakers have rap idly opened...
...year) by reviving the economy-sized (100-in. wheelbase) Rambler that was dropped in 1955. American will also face lift its regular 108-in. Rambler, give it canted tailfins, a flat roofline, pushbutton transmission and a slight horsepower boost to 215 h.p. in the V-8 model. In the low-medium price bracket. American will produce a third, 117-in. -wheelbase Rambler Ambassador to replace its defunct Nash and Hudson, will give it racier lines than last year's standard Rambler, and a bigger, 270-h.p. V-8 engine. List prices...
...low, shovel-snouted grille. Optimistically, President Harold Churchill predicts that the company will cruise into the black before year's end. But after viewing the wide range of Champions. Commanders, Hawks, Presidents and Packards, another automan wondered if S-P was still not trying to do too much...
...Ohio Oil Co. shaved its bids for new supplies of Wyoming heavy crude by 8? per bbl. and Indiana Standard cut its price to Arkansas producers by 10? per bbl. At consumer levels a rash of price wars from New Orleans to New Jersey cut service station prices as low as 14.9? per gal. before taxes...