Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...factor may knock predictions into the junk pile - unpredictable 80-year-old Henry Ford. For months, he has diligently streamlined his company, getting back to his first principles of cheap cars and no frills (TIME, Oct. 11). His low-price fetish once cracked the industry's price structure wide open. It may do so again...
...large harbors, such as Le Havre or Cherbourg, the tide is relatively unimportant; it is crucial on long, low beaches on which invaders can land only at high tide. Extreme tides coincide with full moon. The western wall of Hitler's Europe will see the full moon on Jan. 10, Feb. 9, March 10, April...
...Low liquor stocks show that Cantabridgians will spend a liquid New Year's Eve, yet there is still some possibility that once again some daring young Freshman will cut loose in the Yard and get the squirrels stinko on Scotch...
...began to see mysterious lights in the night sky. Soon they saw airships flying "with the velocity of an eagle." One airship was 2,000 feet long, carried tons of dynamite to drop on the Spaniards in Cuba. Another (according to the Wilsonville Review), powered by a windmill, swept low enough for one of its crew to shout to fascinated Nebraskans a tantalizing summons: "Weiver eht rof ebircsbus!" A third contained "a beautiful lady whose hands were bound to the seat, while, seated opposite her, was a man holding a revolver." A fourth contained a row of Nebraska politicians "expectorating...
Thomas Alva Edison denied that there were any airships over Nebraska, but there were plenty of loyal Nebraskans to testify that the pilot of one low-flying craft leaned out, snatched up a farmer's chicken and dropped a note. It read: "This dodgasted airship business is not what some people crack it up to be. My vehicle is out of order and will not come down. . . . Excuse haste and poor writing, and search for my remains...