Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second major point questioned; the committee stated that it's estimate of many to be saved by the working of the plan was merely a low minimum arrived at by computation with the University. If, at the end of the term, this amount is exceeded, the surplus, will also be converted into food for immediate transshipment abroad...
...low hurdles were won, of course, by Hunter in 25.4 seconds with Petrolla, again, right behind him. Ed Lewis of Harvard came in third and Dahl of Rhode Island was in the fourth spot. Harvard came in third cmfw cmf spot. Clark hung up his second win in the 220, coming home in 23 seconds, not even bothering to climb out of his sweat suit for the event. Cameron was the number two man. Gilmartin of Holy Cross was the third and Kennett, of Rhode Island, fourth...
Since the spring of 1940, said NHA, prices of houses under $6,000 have gone up 65%. Medium-priced houses, $6,000 to $12,000, are up 57%; undeveloped land and building lots, 60 to 62%. The biggest price jump has been in low-cost houses on the West Coast, which are now selling at 96% above 1940 levels...
Even CAB no longer seemed satisfied with the workings of the pact's rate-fixing machinery. The International Air Transport Association had set transatlantic fares at $360, far above the tempting low fares U.S. lines had promised. This revived CAB's earlier fears that I.A.T.A. was but a well-disguised high-fare cartel. Said CAB Chairman L. Welch Pogue: "It seems incredible that people should get together in a fare conference . . . and that nobody should have made a proposal other than the one actually agreed upon...
...antagonists' physical appearance. Trotsky, haranguing his troops, his outsize, intellectual, goateed head cocked above his flaring military coat, looked like a blend of a broker who has just made a killing on the Paris bourse and an actor from the Yiddish Art Theater. Stalin, with his low forehead, ferally cautious manner, soft but searching eyes (says Trotsky: "The jaundiced glint of his eyes impelled sensitive people to take notice"), might but for his size (5 ft. 5 in.) have been a heavy from the Grand Guignol...