Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Saud was a kingly guest. As the destroyer coursed northward through the livid heat of the Red Sea, he sat in his tent, scorning a cabin (and wisely avoiding the ship's low overhead). Mustachioed desert warriors, armed with daggers and clad in brilliant abbayat, roamed the deck. Arab servants squatted in every corner, butchered sheep and cooked them on glowing charcoal braziers. The destroyer's commander had declined the King's offer of enough live mutton for the whole ship's company. But the King had plenty for himself, his party, and for a banquet...
...inevitable point of invasion-regardless of cost. From its fields Jap planes had menaced U.S. B-29s based in the Marianas; from the same fields U.S. long-range fighters will be able to give the Superforts escort to Tokyo. Perhaps even more important, an Iwo base will let low-level photo-reconnaissance planes do a thorough job on Japan's coast. (Highflying B-29s could not make satisfactory photo-maps because of persistent cloud cover...
...that was just the beginning. On D-day Walton went in with the paratroopers long before dawn, flung himself out of the plane door at such low altitude that "there was only a moment to look around in the moonlight as my chute opened. I landed in a pear tree, which was a good shock absorber, but I didn't filter through to the ground; instead I dangled helplessly about three feet above ground, a perfect target for the snipers I could hear not far away...
Textiles. The long awaited orders to roll back textile prices 6 or 7%, and to allocate cloth to producers of low-priced goods, was ready for enforcement. The more obstreperous groups in the textile industry greeted the order with cat calls, others met it with stony silence...
...they will, if Sears can manage. Following its U.S. pattern, Sears will launch an unprecedented low-price selling campaign aimed right at Mexico's mighty masses. Items on the new market...