Word: levels
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...there was little hoarding. Just as a good many businessmen put up their prices in anticipation of a price freeze, so a good many householders (who had also been through it all before) seemed to be holding back, when they could, in a vague hope that prices might level off soon anyway...
...sons, and waited for the Government to come and give him $10,000. He didn't get it; the big bonus is offered only to those who find a deposit of high-grade ore, such as pitchblende. But his discovery, made at the 7,000-foot level on a huge, reddish mesa called Haystack Mountain (only 100 miles from the Los Alamos atomic project), set off a uranium rush which took Grants the way Grant took Richmond...
...sometimes cluttered, but Tudor's well-trained dancers got up on their toes, pirouetted nicely without crashing into one another. What was missing was the brilliant choreography of a man who has proved he can create it. The bacchanale was routine ballet that failed to raise the level of a routine performance...
...that altitude, the atmospheric pressure is 30% of that at sea level...
Hardly was the ink dry on Harry Truman's national emergency proclamation (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) when Economic Stabilizer Alan Valentine cracked down on the auto industry. He ordered new car prices rolled back to the Dec. 1 level-and kept there for at least three months. After the Government had studied the situation carefully, the price structure would be reviewed to see if the auto companies were entitled to the increases they had tried to put into effect...