Word: lows
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...EXPORT SLUMP will continue, warns Commerce Department. Though exports edged up slightly in third quarter, "the rise is not sufficient to indicate that the low has been passed, and the upswing has started...
Editor at Large. The prison press must publish under conditions that would ulcerate an editor on the outside. Personnel turnover can be high or low, but it is never stable; for one issue the Utah State Prison's Pointer News had an "Editor at Large" on the masthead after its editor in chief resigned suddenly by escaping prison. Cell-block correspondents are notoriously jealous authors, who quit in pique at the slightest editing of their copy...
...milk," "cream" or "ice cream," thus permitting a normally varied menu. But this was a matter of taste and convenience, not medical necessity. The ordinary commercial oils, say Drs. Page and Brown, "are excellent for cooking and baking"; also, "two or three teaspoons added to each serving of a low-fat food convert it to a satisfying, flavorful product." Large appetites "can be satisfied with large servings of veal, fish and poultry." In any case, a single serving of up to 5½ oz. of lean meat is allowed at one meal, preferably dinner...
...Rich. As payment, the stars demand about half a movie's budget, and get most of it under the table ("black money") in order to bilk the tax collector. Although often of low-caste birth, they win such passionate public adulation (oddly mixed with India's idea that actresses are on a level with prostitutes) that they have to be constantly escorted by baton-swinging cops. "These are the new maharajahs," says one bitter moviemaker. "When I think of the money we gamble on them, I can't sleep...
...Lockheed Electras, which go into service this year, and five Douglas DC-8s, due to arrive in 1960. Northwest has pinned down $84 million from 15 banks, twelve insurance companies and the sale of 457,873 shares of preferred stock (its common stock rose from a '58 low of 10⅛ to 27⅛ last week). The line will get more than $10 million by trading in its nine double-deck Boeing Stratocruisers to Lockheed and five DC-7s to Douglas. Though the used-plane market is glutted, Northwest swung the trade-in because it held back...