Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bothered to apply for fuel-oil rations. Some had already used up their quotas. And when winter's first frigid spell dropped thermometers toward the lowest point in 15 years (in Minneapolis) or 60 years (in Detroit) or any recorded year (in Pittsburgh), oil reserves ran dangerously low...
...Surprise. For a moment we thought we had surprised the Japanese. Then suddenly heavy machine guns began to scratch the heavens with fire. We were hedgehopping, coming directly out of the moonlight. Every Japanese machine gunner seemed to get the bead on our bombing run as we skimmed low. The tracers' red, blazing prongs of light flashed by our windows. I was up in the nose with the squadron bombardier, Lieut. George Stout, and it seemed as if we were darting through a corridor of flaming sheaves...
...Wilson's facts and figures: Although Britain's venereal-disease rate is low among nations, civilian infections of syphilis had increased from 5,000 in 1939 to 7,300 in 1941. Gonorrhea was about eight times as prevalent. Nearly 70,000 civilians had contracted one of the diseases in 1941. Added to the spread of the diseases within the military services, these figures mounted to a wartime increase...
...figures are deceptive. For the taxes which the Congress imposed upon the country have little to do with the curbing of civilian demand. In large part they consisted of big corporation levies, and soaked the well-to-do, thrifty middle classes who are the relatively high savers, the relatively low spenders of the community. During 1942 the income-tax base was broadened, but the Treasury turned down an overall sales tax and accepted the 5% Victory tax only under pressure. In 1943 there will certainly be more taxes, probably a huge forced-savings program. Yet already the Treasury is worried...
...special chemicals and maintained by the tube elements themselves. Though radio engineers in 1934 thought 3,000-4,000 watts was the top power for vacuum tubes, "Eimac" tubes are now capable of power peaks up to 1,000,000 watts-yet their cost is extraordinarily low. Even at the beginning Jack and Bill sold 2,500-watt tubes to incredulous airline ground stations for only $75 v. the $300 they had to pay other manufacturers for tubes that could only produce 400 watts...