Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plane was 4,000 feet above Montreal when Harry Griffiths, 20, a civilian employe, fell through an open bomb bay. Griffiths grabbed a bay door and hung on, but could not pull himself back into the plane. Pilot Sidney Gerow, unable to leave the controls and help Griffiths, swooped low over frozen Lake St. Louis and snouted: "Let go!" Griffiths fell 30 feet, slid along the ice, got up and walked away-bruised, frostbitten, unharmed...
Obvious mental disease is usually detected by local boards. But there are four kinds of mental cases not so often ruled out: 1) psychopaths, 2) men of low-grade mentality, 3) manic depressives, 4) epileptics...
Emory S. ("Red") Wages Jr., the pudgy genial Georgian who regaled the squadron's junior officers with tales of his amours, went out on a search one day, tapped out a last message about low gas, and went in. Oran ("Fig") Newton Jr., who had animal nicknames for most of the boys, such as Al Dog for Wright and Red Bird for Wages, was shot out of a dive by A.A. That was all: two pilots. Four enlisted men are missing...
...There is now a tendency towards low-level bombing to the displacement of high-level bombing altogether. . . . Normal anti-aircraft guns mounted on the ground cannot follow low-flying aircraft more than a few seconds [and] fighter planes cannot dive down upon the bombers...
...idea is to hold prices to current levels as far as possible, but there will be changes: some stores on high margins will be cut to lower ceilings; others with exceptionally low margins will be allowed to boost prices...