Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Color Flutters. The sky trains sped past the inundation to the bright green of the gentle countryside around Tilburg and Eindhoven. The planes flew low, close to 500 feet through patches of flak. Then suddenly they spilled their men, cut off their gliders. Soon against the green in the grey day fluttered hundreds of white, yel low, red, blue, brown parachutes. In a matter of minutes, Brereton saw his army in action, forming two columns along a paved road, advancing on a town, their shells raising dust puffs, finally marching...
Freedom Rings. In Reno, a new high was set when 58 divorce actions were filed in one day. In Ossining, N.Y., attendance at Sing Sing Prison amounted to 1,621, a new low...
September is the hurricane season, and each season produces an average of three. Usually, after traveling northwest toward Florida, hurricanes hit a high-pressure coastal front and veer seaward toward a low-pressure area south of Greenland. But last week's storm, like that in 1938, was funneled inland by the coincidence of a low-pressure front near the Great Lakes. The fiercest hurricane in U.S. history was the 1900 Galveston (Tex.) storm, which killed 6,000. The 1938 storm, still considered the most destructive on record, caused damage estimated...
...world's biggest scientific group is the American Chemical Society, a polyglot organization of over 36,000. Its scientific cross section embraces professors, industrial chemists, $1,200-a-year research assistants-chemists high & low. Last week, in Manhattan for their annual convention, they were dazed by an unexpected gift. It amounted to $1,000,000 a year...
Excursions & Alarms. Dunkirk was only a time of frustration and false alarms for the Canadians. They were waiting, in England, to take their places in the Anglo-French line when Hitler's hordes burst into the Low Countries and northern...