Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...low brush country back of Port Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa, where reeds grow shoulder high, terror stalked last week. Ferocious, fearless man-eating lions were eating more & more...
...seven years FSA has granted $212 million of long-term farm ownership loans. Under set amortization and interest payment schedules farmers would have paid back $32.7 million by the close of the 1944 fiscal year. Actually the farmers have remitted $43.4 million. FSA Rural Rehabilitation loans (operating capital for low-income farmers unable to obtain commercial credit) have totaled $843 million. The farmers should have paid back $543 million of this by now; of this amount these low-income farmers have actually paid back all but $59 million...
...Probably the low point of the Normandy campaign in its initial stages occurred during four days of storm, which seriously interfered with unloading operations on the beach...
...Bede Irvin of Des Moines went overseas for the Associated Press with hell-for-leather enthusiasm. When D-day came, he was delighted. Last week he watched U.S. infantrymen moving through barrage smoke west of Saint-Lô. He forgot caution, barely noticed a wave of Marauders coming in low behind him as someone yelled: "Watch out, their bombs are falling short." In the moment-too-long he waited to grab his camera before jumping for a ditch, a bomb fragment got him. He was the 18th U.S. newsman to be killed in World...
...that synthetic will entirely replace natural rubber-the postwar market will be big enough for both. At least two or three years, probably much longer, may be needed to get Malayan and East Indian plantations back into normal production. Then, even if crude is cheaper than synthetic-say as low as 10½ a pound as against the present Buna S minimum of 14?-competition will still be a minor point because of the potentially enormous demand...