Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Service Director Arthur MacNamara told Canadian manufacturers that the armed forces would need 98,000 men in the next eight months. War industries needed 134,117 more workers (as of June 2). To meet these conflicting needs, MacNamara forecast cancellation of many draft deferments, more compulsory job transfers from low-priority industries...
...stood weighted down with equipment behind the flight deck, where I could see scores of searchlights spotting other aircraft over the target and see the red glare of ack-ack bursting both high and low. Root checked each station on the ship with a "You all right...
...bowed low and exchanged greetings. With the battle line only a few miles away, they said, Jap planes would be over any minute. "What can we do?" an interpreter asked...
...rest of us sat there for a few minutes and then suddenly we heard planes. Two fighters were streaking across the low mountains. We saw the Rising Sun on their sides...
...Economist. A firm believer in low wages, Ubico keeps them down by decree. Only skilled workers in the capital city earn as much as 50? a day. Farm workers get 12? to 20?. Food prices in Guatemala are fairly low, but hardly low enough for such wages. Most Guatemalans live in hunger and rags. Ubico often reminds callers that two Guatemalan revolutions (1898 and 1920) coincided with local prosperity. Says he: "If the people have money, they will kick...