Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unveiled his plans to rehouse Britain. His country had lost half a million homes in the war and must have five million new ones in the next decade. He is requisitioning land for building, said Bevan, and will worry about payments to landowners later. Other points: it will be low-cost housing; local authorities will erect it; materials will be scheduled just like bomber parts; the homeless will be billeted in other people's spare rooms as long as necessary. And by 1950 the problem should be licked. Britons hoped that Bevan would get along with it faster than...
Fighting raged on through Caracas' steep, narrow streets the next day. Pro-Government Communists broke into a local barracks, appropriated guns and uniforms. From a new, six-story housing project they attacked the rebels. Loyal cavalry joined the assault. But rebel planes, swooping low to drop bombs squarely on the attackers, settled the issue...
...picture of American life as the neat colonial homes in the ads. A Pocatello, Idaho judge has described the program as "the pillar of the American way of life." It has been a pillar to Carlton Morse too, bringing him more than 20 radio awards of high & low value, and grossing an estimated...
...famed Permanente hospitals, which, at the shipbuilding peak, had over 75,000 Henry Kaiser workers as subscribers, have now begun to let the general public join up at the low war-worker rate (60? a person a week). More than half of the present 40,000 subscribers are now non-shipbuilders. The hospitals' 80 doctors, who have a good record for operations, are convinced that their best work has been in keeping people from getting very sick. A patient gets care when he begins to need it, rather than when he can no longer...
...thus accidentally put two & two together. It was already known that ulcer patients need protein to use up their excess stomach acids and that many ulcer patients are low in blood protein, which contributes to their run-down condition...