Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...swollen orange moon, hanging low in the sky like a Chinese lantern, peered fitfully through the clammy fog. It was a raw night, and Parisians pulled their coats tightly around them as they hurried back to unheated homes. Beside me, huddled in muffler and tattered topcoat, Anatole Carvin, 61, sat on a rickety stool and hawked his roast chestnuts...
...Production and Commerce at Petrópolis: if Latin America must increase its exports of raw materials and foodstuffs to Europe by 30 to 50% in the next four years, as the plan calls for, another "war economy" will develop. Then workers will be drawn from industry into low-profit farming and mining; import of U.S. machinery will be difficult because Europe can't pay for Brazilian goods in dollars...
...Darrow began to give sick babies potassium injections, found that the treatment reduced deaths to "a very low figure." Reporting his improved treatment last week to medicos in Albany, N.Y., the doctor cautioned that too rapid injections may cause heart block. At the University of Texas School of Medicine, nurses who have given the Darrow treatment reported "miraculous" results...
...With the three ports, the Authority plans to establish a new air pattern for New York's Metropolitan area. The Authority firmly believes that the solution to air congestion is not merely bigger airports but a number of airports which split up the traffic. As a start, the low-traffic Newark port will handle 52 of the flights now using LaGuardia every day. Eventually, the Authority hopes that Newark will handle all the Metropolitan area's long-haul traffic; Idlewild, which will be opened by July, will handle transatlantic flights, and LaGuardia will be left only domestic, short...
...example, Molly, who "was not the kind who would think of drawing a line between a married man and an unmarried man when it came to the matter of an evening's entertainment." Next to men, she liked baked hot dogs and red wine. When she felt real low, she gave herself "vitamin" shots, and she often felt low because "they all go for young girls and skinny widows under 35. Nobody wants to sleep with a middle-aged old widow as big as a ginhouse roof. I haven't got a chance in the world...