Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sort novelists spend agonized years trying to reconstruct. But this dialogue had been carefully recorded on a talking disc by a boyish, gadget-loving King, and seldom had the most imaginative of novelists equaled it. Last week, as Rumania celebrated the third anniversary of Aug. 23, TIME Correspondent Robert Low dug out the record, cabled...
Perhaps the success among the other republics of George Marshall's low-pressure diplomacy would still win a strong treaty and, as he said last week, "demonstrate to all the world that . . . nations who really want peace can have peace...
...Cartwheels. Gracie's Working Party is shrewdly hooked up with a patriotic motif. Touring the British Isles, Gracie performs before large audiences of workers, as a part of Britain's current production drive. Britons are fondly familiar with the "low but clean" pattern of a Fields performance. There are 45 minutes of sentimental ballads, sung in an ear-jarring soprano that sometimes shrills up to high C, and comedy songs (like her famed The Biggest Aspidistra in the World), screeched out in unabashed Lancastrian...
Despite a low moan now & then about a possible depression, U.S. business is feeling no pain. One of the best long-range indicators of what businessmen expect is their spending for new plants and equipment. In its current monthly bulletin, the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia states that such expenditures are now running at a record annual rate of $16 billion, more than three times the annual average for the two decades preceding...
...himself. He made his first killing in 1921, buying up depressed Liberty Bonds. Traders first began to notice him when he became a big buyer of Canadian bonds. In the bull market of the '20s, he loaded up heavily with Woolworth and Montgomery Ward when they were low-priced, made millions when they spiraled and were split. One of the few to unload before the 1929 crash, he doubled his fortune by going short...