Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wave. They need men bad. I can't take you all the way in because we've got to get back out here safely and get some more men in there quick. But I'll let you out where you can wade in." The men crouched low. The little vessel was loaded with silent prayers...
Most startling proof of this came from Missouri-and incidentally led to the jailing of famed Boss Tom Pendergast for income-tax evasion. The criminal aspects of that case are more typical of the low state of Missouri politics than of the manner in which fire underwriters normally win friends and influence legislatures. Pendergast & Co. were convicted of collecting large slush funds for supporting the fire companies in a rate fight. The more pertinent facts: 1) since 1922, Missouri has been trying to enforce a 10% reduction in rates; 2) since 1930 it has been trying to collect (for Missouri...
East and West. From his father, Heinrich Coudenhove-Kalergi, the boy also learned the "oneness" of the European idea. The Coudenhoves originally rose to great estate in The Netherlands and Belgium. They followed their dukes from the Low Countries into Austria when the French Revolution turned Europe upside down. The Kalergis originated as a family with a great name in Grecian Crete. Eventually the Coudenhoves and the Kalergis came together, but only after mixing their bloods with the blood of Balts, Germans, Norwegians and Polish Russians. Heinrich Coudenhove-Kalergi's union with a Japanese girl was quite in line...
...stockmarket, already on a liquor spree (TIME, Nov. 8), promptly went through the roof. In New York, American Distilling opened the week at 100, 25 points above last week's close and up 85 points from the year's low. In Baltimore Tom Moore hit a high of $200 v. its $27 1943 low. But before the ordinary stockholder can drink his dividends, he must pay State and Federal taxes, have the bulk liquor shipped around to bottlers, labelers, wholesalers and retailers (who are entitled to the regular 33⅓% markup...
...cors ("The bathroom was a miracle of coral, blue, and jade green, with a tub of flush-pink marble. There was also an open fireplace and a small concealed refrigerator for keeping cold her lotions and the Guinness's Stout. . . . Mirrored closets, glass-enclosed shower, a couple of low overstuffed slipper chairs in coral satin, two washbasins, and a telephone. . . . Her husband's eyes searched the magnificence. 'Where...