Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years Nazi Germany worked with every known device to increase the birth rate of the nation. From an alltime low of 14.7 births per 1,000 population in 1932, the yardstick of the people's "birthjoy" climbed to 20.4 in 1939, sagged only immaterially to 18.8 in the first three years of war. Last September Nazi birthrate booster No. 1, rabbity Dr. Joseph Goebbels, was still able to praise the "fiery zeal" of German propagation...
...million acres of cotton this year. Bad weather and manpower troubles cut cotton plantings to less than 22 million acres. This picture was gloomy, but not final. There is nearly enough in reserve (eleven million bales) to meet a year's needs, but much of it is low-grade, or unsuitable short-staple. If-and this is a big if-the 1943 yield per acre is as good as last year's (a high of 272 lb. per acre), it will be enough to meet the record U.S. needs for a year...
...morning of April 18 was bitterly cold and rough. Off to the left, a cruiser let go a broadside. "A low-slung ship began to give off an ugly plume of black smoke." U.S. gunnery had gotten a small Japanese ship within three minutes. But three minutes is time enough to flash a warning. It would no longer be a night attack at 400 miles, but a daylight raid at 800. Lawson heard the shout: "God damn! Let's go!" They went...
...that afternoon, Lawson and his crew sighted the coast of Japan. Flying in at low level they saw fruit trees in bloom, neat farms fitting into each other, farmers at work. It took iron control to pass up "the biggest, fattest-looking aircraft carrier" the crew ever saw. Every inch of shoreline was wharf, crowded with yachts and heavy ships. They flew low over the roofs toward the first of their chain of four targets. Four times the red light on the instrument board blinked, as each bomb was released. Lawson looked back once, saw a steel smelter "puff...
...mist. They were flying blind and praying that they would see the islands in time. When Lawson decided to climb and fly in on instruments and then jump (it meant losing the plane), they ran into a hole in the weather, saw a clean, concave beach. Lawson dropped low, dragged the beach, inspecting it for logs. It was all right. Co-Pilot Davenport called off the airspeed. Suddenly both engines coughed. They were a quarter-mile offshore when they...