Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Paradise Preserved. Even the Japanese, apparently, had fallen under the spell of "the land where the angels fly low." Dutch troops came upon two happy veterans of Bali's flourishing prewar artists' colony: Belgian Adrien Jean Le Mayeur, 66, and Swiss Theo Meier, 38. They told no harrowing stories of hunger sieges, frozen feet or welted backs. Painter Le Mayeur had lived through the war in a tile-floored seaside villa overhung with purplish-pink bougainvillea blossoms. His studio was a garden perfumed by the powerful scent of the frangipani tree. His model was his youthful wife, Polok...
...have gone home. Others, looking at thinning wallets decided to stay and try out just one more tournament, at Jacksonville this week. Among them: onetime Tennis Champ Ellsworth Vines, who gave up tennis competition in 1940, took up golf, which he said was more challenging and less monotonous. His low-70 golf puts him on the outer fringes of the Big 20. A year ago he set aside $15,000 to make himself a pro champ. Said he last week: "At present prices, my $15,000 won't last me a year...
...industry. Nor does it mean that a wage boost, alone, is enough to get a corresponding boost in price ceilings. But the policy did mean, he said, that companies can now get prompt price relief if 1) they have been squeezed into the red by rising wages and low ceilings or 2) a forecast of earnings indicates that profits will fall below the 1936-39 period...
...prompt price relief where hardship exists. . . . It means that the way is cleared for all-out production." What was more to the point, he finally admitted what businessmen have been wearily saying: OPA's cost absorption policy has reached its limits in many an industry, including household furniture, low-cost clothing and household appliances...
Down to Earth. To step up production of low-cost cotton materials and clothing, OPA granted textile mills increases which will bring them $250,000,000 more a year, add 5 to 15% to the prices of shirts, shorts, etc. OPA also gave a price boost to makers of men's & boys' suits. Now manufacturers who have been hoarding them, waiting for just such an increase, may put them on the market...