Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus ended the reign of the most high-handed, lowbrowed local dictator that U.S. politics has known since the days of the late Huey Long. Posing as a great man suffering for the common people (although his campaigns were financed by reactionary moneybags who liked his low-tax policy). Gene Talmadge had pulled strings and lopped the heads of Georgia politicos for 15 years...
Forte's injury is in keeping with a time-honored tradition at Harvard that ends are particularly susceptible to football impairments. A few years ago Captain Bobby Green, playing the same position as Captain Don, was laid low with an injury halfway through the season. Two years ago left end Loren MacKinney went into the Yale game with a bad leg, while last year he emerged from the Dartmouth contest with another game...
...preferred stocks last week snapped out of a long nap. In the stockmarket they started climbing briskly on greatly increased trading volume. At week's end the senior shares of American & Foreign Power were up two and three points to new 1942 highs (double the year's lows); Electric Power & Light preferreds had jumped five and six points; Electric Bond & Share preferreds were up more than six points; Empire Gas & Fuel 8% preferred topped a phenomenal rise with eight more points to hit 166⅞ - an alltime peak and nearly double the year's low. Not since...
...freight cars. Of these 25,000 will be coal cars to meet the greater demand for overland transportation of coal and coke; 35,000 will be low-sided gondolas, 10,000 will be flat cars, both of which types are ideal for carrying tanks, artillery, other heavy pieces peculiar to war production. These cars, purchased at the railroads' own expense, are an outright contribution to the war effort; the carriers already have a surplus of such equipment for their expected peacetime needs. New boxcars, which the railroads can always use, are limited to about...
...immediate conservation campaign, including strict enforcement of low driving speeds...