Word: bottome
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good prices; the Government could still hold the line for consumers. The Administration has pledged that farm prices would be maintained for two years after the war; and the President pointed out that farmers were the only section of the nation to be assured that, come peace, the bottom would not fall...
...bruising fight against terrain as well as pillboxes, snipers' nests, mined roads, concealed mortars' and artillery. The Apennine spine of Italy scatters rough, irregular ribs in all directions. Rain-flooded rivers gouge the land. Perched on heights above the valley-bottom roads, the Germans could give ground slowly and at a stiff price. General Mark Clark's Fifth Army pried them from Mondragone, the western anchor of their line. General Bernard Montgomery's Eighth bit sharply toward Isernia, key to the enemy's center, and Vasto, his east coast anchor...
...building, having a capacity of more than 1,000,000 books. The present collection about half fills them, and about a tenth of these are on exhibition. Unlike the dingy labyrinths of Houghton's senior partner, the stacks are bright with fluorescent lighting that penetrates even to the bottom shelf, but only members of the staff are allowed to appreciate them. The light and humidity of the entire building are so regulated as to prolong the life of the manuscripts
...present statistical results: 1) U.S. industrial volume is 2.4 times, instead of merely twice, that of peace years; 2) more than 70% of U.S. industrial production, instead of some 65%, is in war goods. (This was a shocker to some experts who had figured the civilian rock-bottom as 35% of all production...
...BONES -Herman Peterson -Duell, Sloan and Pearce ($2). How a family skeleton that strayed from its closet to the bottom of an abandoned standpipe endangered the lives of several likable people and gave a rural doctor his chance to play sleuth. Well written, mystifying, capably plotted...