Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...low economic state of Europe, he emphasized, is a threat to peace. "When people are hungry they naturally turn to the government for help. That means that the chances of larger government control and ultimately communism are greater the hungrier people...
...retreated into the high mountains of central Shantung. Their job was to harry the Government's communications and hold villagers to the Communist line as they had been held since the Japs left in 1945. Then on a hot, dusty day, Government troops appeared before Paiyen's low mud walls...
...post-office were two separate wickets. The system went farther: the few Negroes on the gold roll would never have dreamed of sending their children to the superior gold schools, though theoretically they had that right. Worst of all, it was practically impossible to move from the low-paid silver list to the privileged gold roll. After 43 years there are exactly 54 Panamanians on the gold roll...
...prices about 10% last week to meet a price cut by B. F. Goodrich Co. This brought the cost of a 6.00 x 16, the most popular tire size, down to $14.40, slightly under the 1941 price. To make things worse for tiremen, independent dealers slashed their prices as low as $11.38 by trimming their normal profit of 25 to 30% down to 10% or less. The reason was simple: there were just too many tires. In the first quarter of 1947, the tire companies produced at a rate of 100 million a year (1939 rate: 58 million...
There is trouble in other areas of the rubber business, too. In Malaya, there is so much natural rubber in storage that prices have fallen from around 21? a lb. to as low as 15?. Some planters fear that they may fall to 10?. The reasons are 1) the club held over crude prices by U.S. synthetic-rubber production and 2) estimated world production of 1.2 to 1.5 million tons of natural rubber in 1947, equal to 1941's alltime record...