Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...facts than is TIME'S statement that pickups ranging to 7,000 cycles ". . . fail to catch the high overtones of a flute." Of all musical instruments, the flute is distinguished by its complete lack of overtones on its higher notes, and the extremely thin harmonic structure of its low tones. The highest overtone produced by a flute is about 2,500 cycles...
With each stroke of the hammer Wyatt hit his own thumb. He quarreled with other agencies, ran afoul of the powerful real estate lobby. Congress had backed down on price ceilings, had failed to enact the Wagner-Ellender-Taft bill for low-cost housing. Wyatt went overboard for prefabricated homes, which would use vast quantities of still-scarce sheet steel. When he asked RFC to underwrite this assembly-line program he bumped smack into RFC's roly-poly George Allen (TIME...
Fifteen years in and now one year out of the Brazilian dictatorship, shrewd little Getulio had lain low on his southern ranch while his successors bungled the return to democracy, compounded inflation, let Brazilians go hungry. Last week, before a rally of his own Labor Party members in his own cattle-raising state of Rio Grande do Sul, Vargas blamed his downfall on "foreign financial interests," who were jealous of his plans to make Brazil economically independent, let go at President Eurico Caspar Dutra and his Government...
Picketing in near-zero temperatures, the teachers were warmed by parkas, winter coats, ski pants and the comforting thought that most St. Paul citizens sympathized with them. Governor Edward Thye had said that teachers' salaries were too low. Parents living near the schools invited pickets in for a cup of coffee to take the chill away. Some students turned out to cheer the strikers on. Of course nobody tried to crash the picket line...
...blunders. Snorted Oilman Smith: "Fantastic." Actually, the Army-Navy board told WAA last month that it had no preference as to oil v. gas. And if WAA was going to permit the lines to be used for gas, then Littlejohn's complaint that bids were too low made little sense. Many of the bidders would gladly have raised their bids considerably if WAA had told them they could pipe gas (gas securities are more readily marketed than oil securities). All along, they had offered to take the pipelines on either basis...