Word: lost
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...residents were getting enough to eat, thanks to relief ships which the strikers agreed to let through (and got paid regular rates for unloading). But the strike already had deepened Hawaii's postwar economic recession; it had cost the islands $22,560,000 in lost wages and business income, according to an employers' estimate. Some 150 firms had cut their employees' wages from 5% to 50%. Raw sugar worth $44 million was piling up in warehouses, tennis courts, gyms, stables and hangars...
...plot in Massachusetts, infested with gypsy moth caterpillars, was sprayed with 1.5 lbs. of DDT per acre. With the caterpillars wiped out, the forest remained green and flourishing, and soon had a normal population of non-pest insects. A nearby plot, left unsprayed, was defoliated by the caterpillars and lost two-thirds of its normal insect population...
British voters in West Leeds, Yorkshire, have lost a lot of faith in the Labor Party; but a majority are still doubtful whether the Tories offer anything better. In a by-election last week, Labor won the parliamentary seat by a margin greatly reduced from the 1945 general election vote. It was Labor's 51st by-election victory since 1945. Labor defeats: none...
...Lost Boundaries. Louis de Rochemont's honest and eloquent study of Negroes who "pass" for whites (TIME, July...
Policy Arbiter. For Sir William and Anglo-Iranian, trouble is always in the offing. World War II cost them 44 of their 93 ships; during the Palestine fighting, they lost control of the Haifa refinery. But Sir William speedily got the refinery back, and he has rebuilt the tanker fleet to 121 ships, greater than ever. Since the war he has helped Anglo-Iranian boost its crude-oil production from 16.8 million tons in 1945 to 28 million tons...