Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Government purchasing program to absorb high farm prices without letting retail ceilings rise on important cost-of-living items. For instance, this could be done if the Government bought up cattle at going market prices, resold to packers at a figure low enough to give the packers modest profits at current beef ceilings. In effect, the Government will buy up all cattle and sell them at a loss, with the taxpayer ponying up enough money to keep producers and processors in business...
Like a dank whiff from a tomb, the news from Italy flowed over the Alps and oozed across the Reich. People high and low glanced at one another, calculating...
...ours," said a soldier. "Sounds like Hermans," said another voice, referring to the fast-firing guns of the Hermann Göring Division. Vaguely alarmed, we crested the slope and looked out into a narrow alley of plain, hugged by hills-high ones to the left, low gentle slopes to the right. Dead ahead another hill blocked the end of the valley...
Below us was a deep ravine clothed in low bushes. On the other side of the ravine was a steep hill-the one which Captains Kelly and Belisle had already gone ahead to take. Kelly's company and a company from another battalion were on the slope nearest us; Belisle's company was on the rear slope, out of our sight...
...Mediterranean belonged to the Allies, but this fact did not mean that the enemy was absent or impotent. In the first days German fighters and bombers repeatedly attacked the ships offshore and the beachheads jammed with men and supplies (see p. 28). In the air Allied losses were low, and so was the bag of enemy planes: the Axis fighters avoided combat with Allied fighters when they could. But enemy ack-ack on Sicily was often concentrated and dangerous. Allied air supremacy was won and maintained by a gallantry all the more impressive because it was routine...