Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months, Episcopal churchmen of New York's rich, 100,000-communicant diocese have prayed and politicked over the successor to Bishop William T. Manning, who retired last December. No candidate seemed to have quite the shade of Episcopal grace to please both high and low churchmen...
When Edgar Kobak became boss of the Mutual Broadcasting System, it was a nationwide junkpile of 247 "light bulbs" and "coffee pots" (low-power radio stations). That year (1944), advertisers spent $19,600,000 for Mutual's thin air; in 1946, $25,800,000. And this week Mutual signed up its 400th station: Atlantic City's 250-watt WMID. It was the 15th station to join Mutual in 15 days, the 153rd since Kobak took over...
Rumors flew fast and wild. Was it a subterranean eruption fouling the Gulf with sulphurous poisons? Darling examined samples of the water under a low-powered microscope. He reported that the water seemed full of "waltzing mice": thousands of fast-moving organisms which "seem to accomplish their swimming by a whirling motion." He made sketches and sent them to Washington...
...There were other companies still losing money because of 1) low production caused by material shortages or 2) rising costs. And with the seller's market turning into a buyer's market, manufacturers were afraid to boost prices higher. But even some of the laggards were suddenly doing well. Western Union, which had cried recently that it could not help but go into receivership, turned in a profit of $500,000 in the last quarter...
...Chicago's public schools, where the low quality of handwriting is a much debated subject, manuscript writing (printing) is taught only through the second grade. After that, cursive writing (joining the letters together) is pretty much left to the discretion of teachers. A student in suburban Winnetka who had been taught to letter but not to write, tried to open a bank account, was turned down by the bank, which ruled that block lettering was too imitable a signature...