Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Velazco mobilized the entire police force, hunted high & low. He did not find Aguirre Cámara or his printing plant. On schedule, the pamphlet appeared. Entitled Demagogia, Inflación y Armamentismo (Demagoguery, Inflation and Militarism), it passed through the mails in envelopes like those used by Government agencies. Before the police woke up to the trick, it had reached a wide audience. A single copy now brings as much as 1,000 pesos...
This recent observation by Indian Affairs Commissioner John Collier drew editorial comment from two widely disparate sources last week. The New York Herald Tribune cheerfully declared that at least an Indian President would have dignity, a sly and refreshing humor. Wrote Charles Round Low Cloud, longtime (since 1919) conductor of "The Indian News" column in the Black River Falls (Wis.) Banner-Journal: "Yes. It would take a good thinking man because some man you will think always a good fellow everywhere...
...Reich's largest still-active natural oil refinery, at Misburg. In the fight, 122 German planes (61%) were shot down. But they drove a hard bargain before the fight had ended. Thirty-seven U.S. bombers and 13 fighters were reported missing. Percentagewise (3%), the U.S. crew loss was low, but of some 11,700 U.S. airmen who went into the battle, some 380 went down, to death or captivity...
...last week tried to revive two major civilian war casualties. The casualties: children's low-priced clothing, and cheap rayon and cotton clothes for adults. Both have disappeared almost completely from the market because of OPA's regulations. Under them, manufacturers can make more money by finishing "grey goods" (rough, unbleached cloth) into fancy-looking materials, such as splashy prints, than by finishing it into plainer cloth for cheap clothes. What cheap goods there are for sale are so poor in quality that they will scarcely survive one wartime laundering...
...rather overwritten love scenes, though these are played with unusual heart and simplicity by Van Johnson (as Lieut. Ted Lawson) and a talented, sensitive newcomer, Celia Thaxter (as Mrs. Lawson). It is best in its flying scenes-above all in an ambitious sequence which purports to take a low-flying bomber all the way from the deck of the Hornet to the roofs of Tokyo...