Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Much? Nevertheless, coal is being dug. The Army Service Forces, busily fixing up the railroads and clearing the canals, soon hope to have them in shape. As yet, Ruhr production is small-only 500,000 tons of low quality coal (brown coal or lignite) a month. But the Allies hope to boost this to 3,500,000 tons 'of hard coal and 2,500,000 tons of brown coal by Christmas. While this is far less than Germany's prewar production in the Ruhr (9,000,000 tons of hard coal and 4,000,000 tons of brown...
Westbrook Pegler, most glowering of columnists, suddenly bared to his readers a gentle, wistful soul. Sourball Pegler confessed that he had found his "stock of merry jape and ready wit" quite low, and was "considering steps to correct this. . . ." Whether his boss (Hearst) had told him to get off his Johnny-one-note of hate toward labor leaders, foreigners and New Dealers, or whether Pegler had decided all by himself to change his tune, no one knew. Wrote Pegler...
...Accuse me, if you will, of endorsing backwardness, indifference and ignorance, but let me ask, in return, whether we were not much happier when our rages involved [such matters as] whether the referee gave Tunney a long count or Dempsey hit Jack Sharkey low...
Under these restraints the leftists-and most of hungry, harassed Italy-chafed. U.S. and British policy had never seemed more out of touch with popular feeling. U.S. and British prestige had never seemed so low. Reported London's New Statesman & Nation: "Already a year ago the people were singing in the churches of southern Italy: "Et ab AMGOT libera nos, Domine-And from AMGOT deliver us, O Lord...
...these things, said the Board, will combine to squeeze many manufacturers between high costs and low ceilings, to squeeze out incentive to start new enterprises, or expand old. Gloomily the Board concluded: "Unless more realistic pricing formulas are adopted ... a great many will be driven to the wall...