Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lambasted each other over the 20% income-tax cut promised by bullheaded Harold Knutson during the campaign. Knutson had tried to bulldoze his Ways and Means Committee into endorsing his bill, only to have Michigan's Albert Engel rebel. Engel's plan: double exemptions to help the low-income group. The fracas had ruffled the G.O.P. leadership itself when Illinois' Leo Allen, Chairman of the Rules Committee, threw in a plan of his own. Allen would give the little taxpayer a 20% cut, the big fellow less. Laughing fit to bust, Tennessee's Albert Gore gloated...
...divorce. The House suggested as suitable grounds: incurable insanity, habitual drunkenness and physical cruelty. But chances of approval by the stand-pat Senate were slim. ¶ Jack McVea's raucous tune Open the Door, Richard! (TIME, Feb. 10) was running through the country's veins like a low-grade fever. In San Antonio, a man named Richard was kept up all night by people ringing the doorbell and chanting the refrain. And in Manhattan old Jake Ruppert's brewery made it the slogan of an advertising campaign...
Woolworth's fell back on a few gas lamps which had never been removed-but now gas pressure was low, because many Londoners turned up the gas for heat. Dickins & Jones's big store was almost empty. It had one dissatisfied customer, who tried hard in the dark to distinguish between silk and linen materials. She muttered: "Drat this! I thought we'd finished with blackouts." In Fortnum & Mason's flower department a girl clerk said crossly: "I wish people wouldn't be so goodhearted about it all ... then maybe something could be done...
...Itagui, Bello, Envigado and Copacabana, but industrialization goes on. The municipal power system provides the cheapest electricity in South America, and is stepping up the supply with a second huge hydro development. The well-paved streets contrast sharply with Bogota's slovenliness. Illiteracy in Antioquia is relatively low...
Softened by the low calibre of their recent opposition, Coach "Moe" Berg's Yardling cagers ran into a slick Exeter Academy yesterday afternoon and as the final whistle blew found themselves on the short end of a 64 to 58 score. It was the second defeat of the season for the Freshmen...