Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Antwerp people close doors softly and talk in low voices. Hollow-eyed citizens, clinging to their homes, skulk through the ruined streets. Antwerp is a city of suspense-until suspense is broken by the thunder of guns and the put-put of V-1 robot bombs...
Near Gatlinburg, Tenn., a C-47 cargo plane took off, climbed above the wild, wooded slopes of the Great Smoky Mountains. Flying low, at elevations between 1,500 and 5,000 feet, the plane reeled out 16 miles of continuous telephone wire in six and two-thirds minutes flat, linking Gatlinburg and Smokemont...
This was far higher than the gloomy estimates - some as low as 10% - which have floated about Washington...
...comparing prices during the darkest days of the war with February prices, Eccles had made the bull market appear falsely sensational. Actually, after three years of prodding, investors had accomplished no more than to hike stock prices from their low after Singapore's fall to only a few points above their values at the time war began in 1939. To most investors this modest recovery did not seem like a runaway market. But the red flag waved by Eccles was a signal for a tactical retreat...
...Marine Division hospital was built low into the bulldozed hillside to afford maximum protection from Jap mortar and artillery fire. It consisted of two long dark green tents plus two operating rooms about 10 by 20 ft. which the Japs had built as concrete rainwater cisterns. The air inside was stuffy with stale cigaret smoke mingled with the smells of dirt and blood and sweat. But the rawboned Division surgeon, Commander Richard Silvis, was very proud of his operating rooms...