Word: low
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...powdery on top, packed solid beneath, ideal for skiing. Above towered the two mountain giants, Languard and Julier, up to their waists in dark green firs. On a terrace, its streets white-carpeted with snow, lay the famed resort town of St. Moritz, a chockablock jumble of low, square houses and great, ugly, expensive hotels. Villagers, doing their day's marketing, dodged visiting skiers in the streets. Crowded little St. Moritz (pop. 2,500) had set up 4,000 extra beds, which would not be nearly enough. For St. Moritz this week is the scene of the fifth winter...
Because the $10,000 salary was "too low," George Pierce Baker, Jr. '25, James J. Hill Professor of Transportation, yesterday turned down the chairmanship of the federal Civil Aeronautics Board. The post had been offered to him by President Truman...
Salary Too Low...
...London's Savoy Hotel, John Steinbeck overheard a Chicago Tribune man snort: "Capa, you have absolutely no integrity!" That wartime remark, says Steinbeck, "intrigued me-I was fascinated that anybody could get so low that a Chicago Tribune man could say such a thing. I investigated Capa, and I found out it was perfectly true." Photographer Robert Capa and Author Steinbeck became great friends...
Melting Sugar. In New York, where trade in world sugar futures was resumed for the first time since 1941, the price fell to a low of 3.63? a lb. (Last August the world spot price had been 8.5?.) The big fall was due to prospects of a huge crop in Cuba, little buying by Europe and a 1948 U.S. import quota smaller than Cuba had hoped for. In a few months, after U.S. refiners had used up their stocks, the drop would bring down retail prices...