Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reporting on his first year as head of the Veterans Administration, patient General Omar Bradley had sharp words for the ex-doughboys who would rather stay in the "52-20 clubs" (drawing $20 a week up to 52 weeks) than take low-paid jobs...
...LOW IN ESTEEM...
...moves via "PreWi" (rhymes with peewee), a highly mechanized common carrier that calls itself "copy boy for the press of the world." PreWi was organized by a syndicate of newspapers 17 years ago, in protest against the oldline cable companies, whose stiff rates and habit of sidetracking low-rate press dispatches had annoyed publishers in World War I. PreWi now also carries radio-photos and voice broadcasts, had a mobile station working from a Normandy beachhead on D-day plus...
...tonnage, roughly a quarter of expected U.S. consumption for 1946, was a prize few other countries wanted. The ore is low grade, needs special smelting to produce pig tin. But the U.S. has just such a smelter at Texas City, Texas. The U.S. problem was not refining the ore, but getting more...
There is little chance that Bolivia will exceed the 17,600 tons agreed upon. Reason: rising labor costs (up from a prewar 27? per-man-per-day to $2) will force some mines operating on a low profit margin to remain closed. So, with a low tin yield coming in from the rich Far Eastern mines, the CPA expects a short tin supply until...