Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jets' high fuel consumption? Not a permanent obstacle. Said Whittle: "Jets don't waste fuel when they're doing what they're designed for: flying fast at high altitude. But when they have to circle slowly around at low altitude waiting to land, they use enormous quantities...
...Among them: J.P. Morgan the Elder, Columbia University's Seth Low, Financier Robert Fulton Cutting. *Who once observed, in an address to the New York Lutheran Ministers Association: "In the Episcopal Church the bishop is an interesting decoration. We must have someone around to say grace at banquets...
...Among them: J. P. Morgan the Elder, Columbia University's Seth Low, Financier Robert Fulton Cutting...
...biggest trouble was that G.M.'s costs were racing along while production was in low gear. The strike had cut G.M.'s sales for the first quarter of 1946 to $74 million (v. 1940-41 sales of $500 million per quarter). And after the strike was settled, G.M.'s increased labor force (400,000 employes v. 274,000 in 1941) produced half as many cars as the company had put out before...
Indifference, notably, was rather low. In virtually every one of the distributing points, the poll forms were completely gone before one o'clock. Of the 1800 polls printed and handed out, well over 1300 were turned back in, most of them completely filled out. Of those taking the trouble to complete the form, only slightly better than seven per cent conformed to the stereotype of Harvard indifference by professing to think that the method of selecting a Council made no difference at all. The response to the poll may indeed, have started to pull apart the timeworn thesis that...