Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...committee of five Senators and five Representatives to search into the "cold, unvarnished, indisputable facts." No favoritism should be shown, he warned. Nor should the investigation be carried out with "the purpose of gratifying the misanthropic hatreds of any person toward any present or past public servant, high or low, living or dead...
...Stettinius got the job. Shortly after Yalta, tired and worn out, disgusted and fed up, Byrnes quit as War Mobilizer. But on the second day of the Truman Administration he was back at the White House, conferring with the man whom he had known in the Senate. He lay low during San Francisco, but after it was over he got the job which everybody had prophesied he would...
...solution seemed to lie in a U.S. loan of up to $3 billion, which the British would accept only if they had plenty of time to pay and if interest rates were low or merely nominal. The U.S., anxious to get partner Britain back on her feet, had conditions, too: 1) modification of Britain's pro-cartel policy; 2) scaling-down of Britain's debts by the countries of the sterling group; 3) relaxation of Empire trade preferences...
...explosion is known in Manhattan Project doubletalk as "Trinity." Most of the land once belonged to a rancher named MacDonald, whose wrecked ranch house was the first human habitation to be blasted by the terrible force of exploding atoms. Ten thousand yards from the test site are the two low, heavy-timbered buildings, banked to the roof with earth, which housed the bomb-exploding generator and observation instruments (known in atom-scientist code as "Beta" and "Ten Thousand"). Nearby stand two white-painted Sherman tanks used to examine the area immediately after the explosion-airtight and lead-lined to protect...
Stocks of clothing are very low, will probably be completely sold out by the time better quality goods make their long-awaited appearance. Furniture departments had only a minimum stock of rock-hard springless chairs, couches and beds. One Detroit store ruthlessly cleaned out its entire line of cardboard toys, burned them as trash...