Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...disease looked suspiciously like a dirty Republican trick. But the strong gust of wind that blew the tent down, making it necessary to hold the auction in a crowded, drafty barn, was definitely an act of God. Even so, for a registered herd, the bids were suspiciously low. Jersey cows went at $100, and the owner stomped off in a huff when $10 was bid for a young bull. Squire Henry Morgenthau Jr.'s whole herd of 100 purebred dairy cattle at his Fishkill, N.Y. farm brought a total of $15,598-only half again as much...
They are strung in a double chain: the Radak, or Sunrise, group on the east; the Ralik, or Sunset, group on the west. They are run-of-the-Pacific, tropical atolls: low, narrow coral formations studded with is lets, enclosing calm lagoons where volcanic cones may once have jutted (see map, p. 26). Twenty years ago, when the Japs settled down to prepare for World War II, the islands had a population of 10,000 Kanakas, lazygoing, brown-skinned Micronesian fishermen and boatmen...
When buttermen refused to sell at his prices, he imported Argentine butter and sold it at low prices until he broke them down. When cheap cloth got scarce, he compelled all cotton mills to produce one tenth of their export cloth in popular styles, had the goods sold at "yardstick" prices through portable street stores. They were mobbed by pushing housewives, and soon cloth prices in regular stores went down. In some cases of speculation or hoarding, he turned to outright requisition...
...minutes past noon, low-flying torpedo planes came within gunfire range and dropped their torpedoes. They were shot down by our anti-aircraft batteries. One. Two. Three. All exploded and burned...
...Methodist inheritance was the one that got J. Arthur Rank into the movies. Some 15 years ago he became concerned about the low and meager state of religious cinema, and organized the Religious Film Society, Ltd. He began making movies for Methodists. (He still teaches Sunday school in Reigate...