Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cold morning of their postwar poverty, other nations understood themselves better. In Washington another traveler mused. Energetic, one-eyed Herbert Morrison, leader of the House of Commons, declared: "We [Britons] haven't properly got used to [peace] and often have to think twice when an automobile in low gear makes a noise like a siren. . . . We still can't afford to light shop windows at night or allow electricity to be used for advertising signs...
...Greyhound busses ran out of Birmingham, no meat was delivered in Albany, no caskets made at the Tennessee Coffin & Casket Co. Boston, home of the cod, was low on fish because of a fishermen's dispute. The strike of 3,000 A.F. of L. machinists at Stamford's Yale & Towne Mfg. Co. was in its third month. In seven states, workers at Libby-Owens and Pittsburgh Plate Glass plants stayed away for the twelfth straight week, crippling the supply of glass to auto manufacturers not beset with strikes of their...
Street lights swung suspended in midair like furry halos. Snub-nosed busses, bunched in convoys, crawled in low gear behind inspectors pacing ahead with lanterns. Three passengers were killed in a suburban train crash; hundreds of fenders were dented...
...flimsy evidence," said Bowles, was a display of dresses, dry goods, toys, etc., which N.R.D.G.A. has. been exhibiting to Congress. It contrasts well-made articles, put out by established firms whose manufacture has been supposedly smothered by low ceilings, with shoddy merchandise which consumers were forced to buy from new manufacturers at higher, OPA-sanctioned prices...
Next month, industrial production hit its low for the year. The Federal Reserve Board index, which had been at its 1945 high point of 232 in February and March, hit an October low at 163. Then production began to climb, and in spite of strikes recovered to nearly 70% of the wartime high before the year's end. Nor did anything disastrous happen to the economy when federal spending plummeted. The economic barometers went down, but they were not jarred enough to fall off the wall...