Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...made astute military men realize that airborne troops, supplied by air, would be a crucial factor if World War III arrived. Few would have believed, a month ago, that 2½ million people could be fed by air. If the U.S. and Britain, now at a low peacetime level, could turn that trick with a scratch force, what could they do if mobilized for war? The answer perceptibly shortened the shadow of the Red Army...
...able to mumble a question: he asked if his briefcase was safe. It was. He was taken to the Policlinico, Rome's largest hospital and the only one not affected by a slowdown strike of doctors, nurses and attendants which had begun that morning as a protest against low wages. One of Italy's most famous surgeons. Dr. Pietro Valdoni. worked over Togliatti for 2½ hours while Signorina Iotti and Togliatti's wife, white-haired Rita Montagna, stood in the doorway. Togliatti's Socialist ally, Pietro Nenni. wandered aimlessly about the corridors. Premier Alcide...
...raised some opposition. Ninety members of Corinth Baptist got out; they objected to the diversion of their $39,000 building fund (the congregation now worships in a private house), objected to the pastor's leasing the old building to Mrs. Starr for 20 years at a sum so low he refuses to name...
...Minutes Each? The patients flocked in to register. Under previous schemes, 22,200,000 low-income people were en titled to free care; they were joined now by 14,500,000 more, a total of 36,700,000 out of a population of 41,460,000 in Eng land and Wales. (Separate but similar schemes started at the same time in Scot land and Northern Ireland.) Said one gleeful patient: "I've been paying my doctor ten shillings sixpence ($2.10) per visit twice a week. Now the fellow has to attend me for 15 bob a year...
Prospects of early price cuts in meat were also out. With an abundance of feed on hand, farmers this fall would hold back more than the expected number of animals for breeding and fattening, pushing the low rate of meat production still lower and prices still higher...