Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week, including some soldier votes, stood at 53.4% for Roosevelt. His total civilian vote was about 52.5%-exactly the estimate of FORTUNE'S secret civilian ballot. FORTUNE'S other estimate of 53.6%, based on a series of questions, was about 1% high; Gallup, and Crossley about 1% low...
...will carry passengers at the fantastically low direct cost of 1? per mile; freight, in an all-cargo design, at 5? per ton-mile...
...shortage that threatened to be serious was cotton textiles, in spite of a surplus of raw cotton (see below). Shopwindows might display eye-catching assortments of merchandise until window-shoppers got snub-nosed: the price tags, for most people, said "touch me not." Consumers in the low-income brackets found only inadequate stocks of shabby merchandise at prices they could afford. OPA ceiling prices on cheap goods were set so low that manufacturers could not earn a profit. Thus manufacturers simply stopped making low-priced textiles, or fell back on skimping quality. Underwear production for civilians dropped...
Although the U.S. had a bigger supply of raw wool than ever before, retail inventories of woolen goods ran low. Civilians hoped for a warm winter. With 10% fewer mill workers than last year, woolen production for the first quarter of 1945 may not exceed 90,000,000 yards, of which 60,000,000 yards are needed to fill Army, UNRRA and other Government orders...
...these computations must be made in two to seven seconds. Even with the help of tracer bullets, a trained free-hand gunner gets a very low percentage of hits...