Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thought they saw someone bail out in a parachute. But what they saw was the transport's tail assembly. Then the airliner screamed crazily earthward, careened into a mountainside. The wreckage burned for five hours; the three crew members and nine passengers, including Songwriter Ralph Rainger (Moanin' Low, Love in Bloom), were dead...
...operate from New Caledonia and the New Hebrides, as well as from General MacArthur's sphere in Australia and New Guinea, across the incredibly inefficient and arbitrary line dividing Army-Navy command in the area (see map). The Army has recently delighted the Navy by taking to low-level attacks. High-level "precision" bombing has not been too precise in the Pacific. Last week heavy bombers went into Rabaul at mast level, and sank or damaged ten ships...
...least five reasons: (1) It will help but slightly to check inflation because the lowest income groups spend most of their wages on necessities such as food, and for larger incomes a five per cent levy is not heavy enough, (2) It burdens the poorest families most, taxing as low as the subsistence wage of $12 a week, $600 a year. In this income area there is scarcely enough to keep a family alive. A third meal a day should not be taxed away, or nearly so. (3) It has the worst elements of a sales tax. The five...
...Senator voted against slum clearance and low cost housing, needed government reorganization, against extension of TVA, and against CCC and aid for the unemployed. In foreign affairs, he voted against repeal of the disastrous arms embargo, against the trade pacts, backbone of the Good Neighbor policy and against sending an army abroad, thus tying the hands of the military. This is neither the record of a humanitarian, a leader, or a statesman...
...most disappointing features of the drive, according to officials, was the extreme low per capita investment among the members of the various Houses. The combined average of the seven Houses was only 14.1 cents per person, with Winthrop again leading the parade with 18.7 cents. Lowest single House was Eliot, whose residents, rang up only 5.3 cents per person on the stamp sales...