Word: levels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russians offer. Czechs often have to sell their goods to the Russians below cost and the wares which the Russians force Czechoslovakia to buy are often unsuited to Czech needs. Some Czechs feel that the Russians want to force the Czechoslovak standard of living down to Russia's level. Even some...
...sociological, patriotic, or religious overtones. Played straight as it is, this makes for an un muddied plot. But the actors are not always able to take advantage of their necessary importance in such a movie; they could have excelled, instead they sometimes fail even to sustain an average level of competence at the art. Overplaying of scenes is not infrequent, and always noticeable...
...television industry hardly knew, last week, whether to wince or cheer. In a baccalaureate address. Boston University's President Dr. Daniel L. Marsh warned that "if the [television] craze continues with the present level of programs, we are destined to have a nation of morons." But from a suburb of TV-happy Baltimore came cheerier news. A survey made by School Principal Joseph Barlow of Essex, Md. seemed to show that TV has knit families more closely; reduced street accidents to children; improved adolescent behavior; sped up housework by wives eager to get to their sets; and cut down...
...inflation spelled trouble. Harvard Economist Sumner H. Slichter urged the Government to clamp the lid on mushrooming consumer credit, now at a near-record $18.6 billion, and admonished businessmen to "exercise caution in the accumulation of inventories." Slichter thought, however, that if employment stays up, the current level of business might easily last for nine months to a year longer...
...fever chart: the price of gold was dropping all over the world. In the free market of Tangier where many of South Africa's premium sales were made the price was already down to $36.90 an ounce off more than $1.50 in a month and below the level where South Africa can make its premium sales pay. In France the price had tumbled to $38.25. In Milan and Hong Kong the story was the same. All over the world, said Manhattan's Franz Pick, publisher of a high-priced ($20 a month) report on world currencies, hundreds...