Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hanford said that "it was felt that it would be very difficult to grant the present petition and deny requests of other groups who might, for one reason or another, desire to be excused from charges for certain meals." Furthermore, in order to maintain board rates "for all, as low as possible" it was decided that a uniform 21-meal rate for all men had to be maintained...
...weeks later they signed a formal agreement to reduce and merge their armies (from 300 divisions to 60, within 18 months). But no man understood better than the Special Envoy that agreement, in principle, on a high political level would mean nothing unless kept, in practice, at a low political level. He had promoted the idea of an Executive Headquarters, set up at Peiping, which sent out Government-Communist-U.S. field teams to enforce the truce terms...
...William F. Petersen, professor of pathology at Illinois University and coauthor of The Patient and the Weather, offered a medical reason for spring fever: "In northern regions, the low ebb of vitality is reached in March and April. Blood pressure is low, blood vessels are tired. Winter has left . . . the body's store of blood proteins, vitamins and the rare minerals . . . low...
Defeat for OPA? Having made these strategic retreats and truces, Stabilizer Bowles made his stand against the toughest enemy of all-the cotton bloc. OPA fears that the soaring price of raw cotton will wreck its low-cost clothing program. But Bowles was badly mauled by cotton patriots two months ago when he tried to put a ceiling on cotton, the only basic commodity without one. This time he tried a flank attack...
...prime attractions of the Fuller house is its low price: not over $6,500 delivered. It is so light-only about three tons as compared with anywhere from 45 to 140 tons for an orthodox house, that it can be shipped from Wichita to any point in the U.S. for less than $100. Its biggest drawback is the drawback of all such houses: building codes automatically bar them in most cities. Bucky Fuller's house has one more drawback. It stands out like a fat thumb among conventional houses...