Word: rates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Waiting for the Brides. Then Sayed Abdul Rahman and his followers turned to still greater joys. On this day of days, Sudanese bridegrooms could marry for an $8 dowry instead of the usual expensive outlay for bridal clothes and marriage feasts. Four hundred bridegrooms took advantage of the cut rate. They faced their brides' proxies (the brides' fathers) and took the marriage vows. While the absent, newlywed wives waited expectantly at home, the menfolk took off to pub-crawl the cafés of flag-decked Omdurman, to feast, sing and dance...
Visitors accustomed to the sharp, snappy shots that cram the pages of picture magazines and camera annuals might wonder why critics rate Stieglitz the greatest artist in the short history of photography. The answer lay in the pictures, but it was not on the surface. Stieglitz had never resorted to trick camera angles and darkroom shenanigans for their own sake, never searched out dramatic subjects. His art called for consistent understatement...
...disputed by Dr. Robert L. Levy and a group of colleagues at Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Levy's group found that patients with various heart diseases who smoked two cigarets in succession showed no harmful effects. Smoking raised their blood pressure and heart rate, but no more than their usual daily emotional experiences...
...things worse for tiremen, independent dealers slashed their prices as low as $11.38 by trimming their normal profit of 25 to 30% down to 10% or less. The reason was simple: there were just too many tires. In the first quarter of 1947, the tire companies produced at a rate of 100 million a year (1939 rate: 58 million...
...that the bill will hurt them almost as much as it will hurt labor. If the President uses his veto, he would do well to understand the predominantly sensible reasons from the point of view of industrial relations, rather than only the political picture of the moment. At any rate, a vote is needed for the second time in one week...