Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite the fact that spring football practice begins in something less than seven weeks, speculation about the identity of the Crimson's new coach petered out to a low whimper last week as Cambridge bogged down in academic detail...
Last week Muggsy closed his baggy eyes and rolled around low in Royal Garden Blues, with the sharp, brittle staccato that identifies all "Chicago brass." (Once when a name bandleader asked him to play high, Muggsy growled: "Aw, go get a piccolo player.") Explained one jazz fan: "Muggsy's from the South Side. He plays best at home...
...federal employees now participate in Blue Cross plans "because of the difficulties of handling subscription payments without the cooperation of the employer. ... In this important instance the much-maligned American businessman is way ahead of a federal Administration which has preached medical protection for the low-income wage-earner for the past 15 years...
...wiping out one entire echelon of executives. Columbia Pictures had fired 25% of its employees, and RKO's Gower Street studio had been dark for ten days. This week the entire industry was shooting only 25 pictures. Even though the first of the year is always a low point, this was not quite half as many pictures as were under way at the same time last year...
...Low Ceiling. The British Overseas Airways Corp., largest of Britain's three government-owned airlines, reported that it lost about $32,500,000 in its first year of postwar commercial operations (ending in March 1947). BOAC blamed most of the loss on the uneconomic planes it has been forced...