Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Less Food-Later. Last week 100 carloads of Canadian feed wheat were shipped into Kansas, No. 1 wheat-producing state, to replenish dwindling supplies of livestock feed. U.S. grain stocks are running dangerously low...
...moral: it happened in a town where a Fascist still held office. Here, as in most of the liberated land turned over to King Vittorio Emanuele and Premier Pietro Badoglio, things were not going well. As U.S. officers had testified (TIME, April 24), Allied prestige had fallen low...
Though appendicitis is more prevalent than ever, the appendicitis death rate is only one-third what it was in 1929. Present rate: 5.2 per 100,000. The Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., which reported this figure last week in its Statistical Bulletin, says that the chief reason for the low rate is that more people have learned not to take laxatives when they have a bellyache...
...changed his mind quick to work hand in glove with his air chief, Lieut. General George C. Kenney, one of the most brilliant developers of air warfare (TIME, Jan. 18, 1943). And some of his campaigns in the South Pacific, a series of victories won with small forces and low casualties, are already regarded as tactical masterpieces...
...Leonard Woolf, with whom she published books that the London Times described as "having a political trend to the Left." Several times in her life she had had intimations of insanity. During the blitz she was twice bombed out of her house, and moved to Monks House, a long, low, green frame dwelling surrounded by gardens, in Sussex. On March 28, 1941, she wrote a note to Vanessa and one to her husband, took her stick and walked across the Downs to the River Ouse. Later her hat and stick were found on the river bank. On April...