Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Radios & Showers. Coaches will have plenty of leg room between seats; washrooms will be large, well equipped. Some cars will be radio-equipped with speakers fitted into the seat backs at ear level. Volume control of radios will be kept low so that other passengers are not disturbed. A coach for women only will be fitted with individual powder rooms...
...guilt, by strong inference, illustrates the sordidness and guilt of all Germans. Far from unauthentic, they are passionately ferocious caricatures of the globally ubiquitous petty bourgeois at his worst-a worst already recorded by such masters as Flaubert. Their sordid motives and moral density probably reached an all-time low in the world Adolf Hitler gave them to live in-a world which both encouraged and required the type. In spite of his zeal, Author-Director Mikhail Romm has not made an adequate image of the German people. But he has made a more than adequately exciting movie-powerfully acted...
...Most striking was a radar picture of Manhattan taken through heavy clouds at a low altitude by the latest microwave set (see cut). Plainly showing, in fairly sharp outline, are piers, Central Park, individual buildings...
From the War Production Board last week came an alarmed report: U.S. stocks and importations of tin are so low that they may be nonexistent by the end of 1946. Since tin is vital to a host of industries, this might hobble reconversion. So WPB intends to keep a tight control over tin until large-scale importations from the Far East are resumed...
Nevertheless, lending institutions last week scrambled furiously to get themselves ready for installment buyers when the lid is lifted. The big credit companies led the way by slashing to an alltime low the interest rates to dealers for financing autos. Commercial Credit Co., C.I.T. Financial Corp. and General Motors Acceptance Corp. announced a drop from a prewar 4% to 3%. (The Bank of America National Trust & Savings Assn., in San Francisco, went them one better...