Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week China had two firsts: her people went to the polls in a national election, and her currency dived to a new low -it now took more than $100,000 (Chinese) to equal $1 (U.S.) The two events, one symbolic of hope and the other of despair, were intimately connected in Chinese minds, in world politics and in the U.S. conscience...
Wagnerian Soprano Helen Troubel went into a Dallas hospital to lick a "stubborn low-grade" infection after an attack...
This plan, voted by San Franciscans ten years ago over doctors' objections, has had a rough career. Because members' payments were set too low, doctors have often been paid less than the scheduled fees. Last fortnight, aroused by rebuffs of their demands for a 15% raise in fees, and by Medical Director Alexander S. Keenan's suggestion that they had needlessly pyramided costs by calling for too many laboratory tests and X rays, the doctors finally rebelled...
...some colleges a definite number of minutes of playing time is the basis for letter awards, but, like the present Harvard-Yale system, it wrongs the injured and the low men on the squad. In essence, there can be but one criterion for deciding which men shall be awarded letters: the coach's judgment. To make him ratify his opinion by playing all his choices in one specific game is an artificial and outdated canon...
...Schuman intends to crush the present widespread strikes, he must deal with unions that are controlled by a Communist party opposed to any U. S.-dictated recovery. Maurice Thorez has precipitated a 1,500,000 man walkout for higher wages in the hope that either an expanded currency or low production will push inflation to the bursting point. Schuman favors a general wage increase of $32 per month. Unless this much needed salary boost can be instituted without the evil of correspondingly higher prices, the government will come close to accomplishing the Communists' purpose...