Word: lowe
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Behind their braggadocio there had always been the grudging realization that their country could not afford true sea power; its industrial potential was so low that they could not, in emergency, build a new fleet almost overnight, as the U.S. had after Pearl Harbor. Theirs had been a strategy of poverty and picayune improvisation...
...magazine salvager, handsome ex-Hearstling Paul Hunter, who had rescued Screenland, Silver Screen and Movie Show for him. Hunter ordered Liberty's circulation pulled up out of the barbershop trade, to reach people with more buying power. At first, under Hunter, circulation continued to drop-to a low of 1,112,000. He now has it up to 1,262,000 (about as far as the paper supply will go), has spruced up the editorial fare, and claims to have made a million dollars last year...
...Liberty lacks today is package," says Hunter, moaning low over his lack of better paper to match his better contents. Pointing to the pulp layer in the middle of a slick paper sandwich, he sighs: "We have to print novels on toilet paper...
Many a farmer, impressed by the jeep's war record, has wanted to own one-without thinking twice. Well aware of this eager market, publicity-wise Willys-Overland Motors, Inc., the principal jeep-maker, carefully built its trim, grim little wagon into what it thought would be a low-cost, all-purpose farm vehicle of the future. But Willys did not talk about price; the OPA had to be consulted...
...firm, was promptly caught and hanged. His 19-year-old sister lost her mind at the news. For the next 25 years, until her death, she called at the bank daily to inquire for her brother. In legend, she became the "bank nun." Until 1924, the bank occupied a low, fortress-like pile dominating London's City, was known as The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street. (Despite its ponderous look, a workman once found his way from the street through building cracks and into the bullion room.) It withstood the bombs of the Luftwaffe...