Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day Secretary of State James F. Byrnes rushed to his Department's defense. Calm, low-voiced Lawyer Jimmy Byrnes said he could find nothing in or out of documents to support any Hurley charge of insubordination, let alone inter ference or disloyalty, by State Department...
Urban Britons were amazed. Of the 59,000 girls enlisted or drafted into the Women's Land Army, about 30,000 wanted to stay there after March 1, their demobilization day. They lived on lonely farms and in remote hamlets. For pay as low as $9.60 a week, they worked long hours in fields swept by wet winds. Weekly dances at the local pubs, occasional trips to nearby market towns, replaced the city life in which most of them had grown...
This upset the French, ready to sign an air pact with the U.S. The French, no more ready than Britain's BOAC to compete with U.S. airlines, were not so sure now that they wanted U.S. airlines flying into their country at such low prices...
Cheaper Talk. At a Bermuda conference, the U.S. and the British Empire (which control 81% of the world's cables) agreed to new low rates. Starting April 1, rates will drop to 30? a word for fast cables, 15? for deferred and 10? for night. Under some present rates,* this is a whopping cut. New York-London rates, under an agreed 20? ceiling, were not affected...
Good shots: Bergman teaching a small boy to box; Crosby adding to his singing repertory of Latin with O Sanctissima, and embellishing the nuns' dingdong chorus of The Bells of St. Mary's with a low-down "Ring dem bells...