Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Firefly. Near Trinity Center, Calif., a grazing horse swished his tail at a fly, hit a low-hanging high-tension wire, set his tail ablaze, was electrocuted, started a 55-acre forest fire...
...Strachey was also squirming unhappily over the bitter bread-rationing controversy. Proudly he had announced that the first three weeks of rationing achieved a 33% saving of flour. Cried the Tory press and the National Association of Master Bakers: misrepresentation. They pointed out that holidays always made August a low flour consumption month and that housewives had simply used up back stocks. While the people concluded that the truth lay midway between Strachey's optimistic figure and the bakers' gloomy 10% estimate, they remained unconvinced that bread rationing had ever been necessary, firmly convinced that it had been...
Said Izvestia last week: "A complete lack of ideas, low professional culture, bad taste-these are characteristics of the band. . . . Homemade wit and a vulgar musical stew . . . fills nearly all the program. . . . Perhaps this can be tolerated in forgotten places of western Europe, but not on the Soviet stage...
Only the Government was to blame. In 1942, when the Allied larder began to run low, the Administration, backed by Congress, decided to encourage more food production by guaranteeing 90% of parity prices to growers of potatoes and other agricultural commodities. To make sure the offer would be taken, Congress extended the guarantee until two years after the "termination of hostilities...
...Francisco's aquiline old Amadeo Peter Giannini, whose $5,538 million, 493-branch Bank of America is the world's largest private bank (TIME, April 15), circled low for another capture. His prey: the $360 million, 31-branch Citizens National Trust & Savings Bank of Los Angeles...