Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nearly everybody in the U.S. harbors organisms of trench mouth, may develop the disease if his resistance gets too low from poor nutrition or a bender. Then a bacillus and a spirochete (and sometimes other mouth germs) work together to produce tender, bleeding gums (medical name: Vincent's stomatitis) or throat and tonsil infections (medical name: Vincent's angina). Mouthwashing with hydrogen peroxide is one of the commonest treatments. But treatment usually goes on & on in serious cases...
...Wake Island raid Oct. 5 and 6, carrier-borne Hellcats shot 30 Japanese Zeros out of the air, nailed another 31 to the ground with merciless low-level strafing. Not a Hellcat was lost. At another Pacific island, not identified by the Navy, 21 Jap fighters were destroyed, two Hell cats lost. Combined score...
Lots of Smoke. In Virginia's famed Old Belt markets, tobacco companies are scrambling to buy all the leaf they can get. Although hobbled by price ceilings and individual War Food Administration quotas, they have sent prices flipping up like a snapped butt. Low-grade leaf, once worth only a cent a pound, now brings up to 30?. Second-growth "wisps," which growers once did not even bother to cart to market, now find ready buyers. Flue-cured tobacco, mainstay of the industry, is up to 40? a pound, almost double the 1933-41 average...
...more millions. But for 1942, although Gus Swebilius voluntarily turned back $23,775,000 to the U.S. Government and paid $4,800,000 in taxes, his war business still left his companies $1,888,918 v. $25,514 in 1940. Yet he claims he has consistently been a low-cost producer-and has won fervent kudos, including the Army E, from practically every ordnance bigwig in the book. His Dixwell Corp. claims that it has saved the U.S. Government around $100,000,000 in advising its own and other ordnance plants on ways to cut corners...
Hitler's Children cost only $175,000 to make and was the biggest low-budget money-maker in screen history until Behind the Rising Sun (cost: $210,000) outshone it by covering production costs in New England alone. In any normal year only a very few expensive films will gross as much as $3,000,000. Gross estimates on each of RKO's two sleepers, for the first time in screen history, run anywhere from...