Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...barely three miles a day. So it was that soldiers, who had ap proved General Eisenhower's gamble on the weather, retreated from their first optimistic judgments of the invasion,, which were based on the relative ease with which all but one of the scheduled landings were accomplished, the low casualties, the slow ness of German reaction, the virtual absence of the Luftwaffe. Now, as the fight ing progressed, there was still no indica tion that casualties were becoming prohibitive. But there was every indication that the rate must be increasing...
Spaatz knew already that the time was strictly limited for using his weapon the way he wanted to use it; the day of invasion had been set. Quietly Sally Bagby put through a call to Jimmy Doolittle. Over the phone (equipped with a secrecy scrambling device) Tooey talked in low tones; the bombers were ready. A weather report came in. It was better than it had been for days, but still not too good. Bad icing conditions were forecast at 5,000 feet over the rendezvous area...
Faith in a Hall Bedroom. The industrial revolution was booming. Hours were long, wages low. Dry-goods clerks sometimes worked 14 to 17 hours a day. For recreation in their brief free time they were offered only gambling, drunkenness, lechery...
...given keener images of what jungle fighting is like. Attack's images of vast messiness and spine-cracking effort as men move tanks, guns and ammunition from the beach into the jungle's boggy fantasia are even more impressive than the breathtaking shots made from low-flying strafers, or the magnificence of certain moments when the morning mist merges ships, men, surf, jungle into half-glimpsed symbols of men and nature...
What especially excited Wall Streeters were the symbols which clogged the tickers. A little more than a year ago, Exchange President Emil Schram cried out a warning against the unhealthy boom in the low-priced "cat & dog" stocks (TIME, March 15, 1943). Last week, the "blue chips" led the parade of some 245 stocks onto new high ground. A.T. & T. hit a three-year peak, while Chrysler, Westinghouse, General Motors, Du Pont and many a retail-store stock reached new highs for 1944. And the tone had changed. Grumblers had long complained that every slip of the market meant that...