Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...himself that polls on toothpaste and politics were one & the same. He was also convinced that the famed Literary Digest poll was heading for a disastrous cropper. The millions of Digest postcards were mailed on the basis of telephone and auto registration lists and took no account of the low-income voters who had swung solidly behind the New Deal...
Britain's David Low last week depicted the Man in the Kremlin looking smugly down from his citadel, watching how the outside world continued building an image of him as an infallible octopus. As usual, Low had a good point. The Man in the Kremlin, looking westward into capitalist paganry, had some things to worry about himself...
Hosier investigated all 41 explosions to find out what the weather had been outside the mines at the time. In all cases except one, there had been sharp drops in barometric pressure (due to an approaching cold front or a low-pressure area). Two-thirds of the mine explosions, he found, took place a day or so after the pressure minimum...
Most farmers had learned to put their fat profits to good use. Mortgages had been paid off; those that still remained were generally low in relation to farm income. The farmers still remembered how prices had collapsed after the World War I boom (see cut) as overmortgaged farmers had been sold out. This time they had reason to hope that the decline-when it comes-would be gradual...
...International) is a cinemusical about a tent show. The show's supercarnival acts, which had a rich midway glamor on the Broadway stage, have only a cheap midway glare when filtered through the screen. But Song &-Danceman Donald O'Connor comes through brightly as a sort of low-glazed, hickory-cured Danny Kaye...