Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Statistically, last week was another week of superlatives: practically every business index went up except consumer-goods stocks, which hit a new low for the year...
...Pneumonia deaths, though low compared with pre-1941 rates, were 21% higher than during the first quarter of 1942. Atypical or virus pneumonia, a lung infection whose cause is not certainly known, was responsible for many cases...
...squadron commander, lean, black-eyed Captain Thomas G. Lanphier, tangled with a low-flying Zero, shot it down. He swung away, picked a bomber, shot it down too. Up above, the top-cover fight had broken off. A mission had been completed. The squadron whisked back to its Solomons base, wondered if it had nailed some Jap bigwig in the bombers...
Three weeks earlier, Lanphier's squadron had whipped into Poporang Island with six planes, wrecked twelve float-Zeros, disabled a destroyer in an attack so fierce and low that Barber left three feet of his wing tip in the destroyer's funnel...
...tactics. Lewis dreamed not just of one big union, but of one big Labor party. To get it, as well as to keep his grip on coal, he needed to organize steel and the mass-production industries. He wanted to promote "industrial democracy." He wanted a vast union, with low dues, with a vote for every worker...