Word: low
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pennsylvania's Constitution prohibits graduated taxes or exemptions of low incomes...
...With phenomenally low water in the Mississippi, salt water from the Gulf of Mexico backed no miles up to New Orleans, where fishermen caught sea trout and pompano, and people's mouths puckered at the brackish water in city mains...
...Low river stages in New York, Pennsylvania, the Carolinas, TVA's area in the South cut down the hydroelectric power supply, sent steam-plant output soaring. TVA with all its dams, had to turn on fuel burning plants which it took over from Commonwealth & Southern last summer...
...hotel room he once put up in (TIME, Dec. 18), tried to make amends by explaining that times had changed; but that old room, said he, "was so small it had a digest phone book, the calendar on the wall showed only half a day, the ceiling was so low that if you ordered a three-decker sandwich, the waiter brought one deck at a time...
...outbreak of war with orders so far totaling 1,000,000,000 bags. The price of raw material for burlap is up from ?18 ($84.24) a ton in August to ?88 (about $344.96). Supplies for the U. S. are limited, not likely to last long. Textile companies are selling low-grade, rough cottons to replace burlap sacks...