Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gaps, adjusting the carburetor to fit the decreased flow of fuel, etc. Five standard six-and eight-cylinder cars thus adjusted and road-tested for as much as 5,000 miles showed no mechanical damage or abnormal oil consumption. The company admitted that much gear shifting was necessary at low speeds and on hills, but reported tops of 60 miles per hour on level stretches...
...fighter incapable of good performance at high altitudes is like a race horse short of wind. In fact, on fronts where the best German fighters must be matched, such a fighter is no fighter at all. It must be converted to such low-altitude bombing and strafing as the P-40 Tomahawks and Kitty-hawks have been used for in Africa (where, within their altitudes, they have done superlatively well). Spitfires do the real fighter jobs in Africa just as they do in Britain...
...Senate subcommittee's sudden endorsement of Beardsley Ruml's common-sense plan spelled the end of a fancy retouching job that Treasury's Taxpert Randolph Paul proposed: that relief from taxes due on 1941 incomes be granted only on low-income taxes, leaving high bracketeers with the excellent possibility of owing two years' taxes to be paid from one year's income. If the House still wants a withholding tax, whereby employers deduct tax payments before the pay checks go out, the Ruml plan will make that easier too: there will then be no problem...
...because he remembered the glory decades when the company's famed "Red Seal" engines were used by 90% of some 600 independent automakers. But the glory was gone. Instead, the company blew its cash on fancy airplanes, a fleet of chauffeured limousines, a fling into the highly competitive, low-priced passenger-car business. In 1939 the big boot of RFC was evident when the old bosses faded out and Reese became president...
Pardon My Sarong (Universal). Abbott & Costello, the outrageously low comics who are Hollywood's best-selling double feature, have made this picture, under various titles (Buck Privates, Ride 'Em Cowboy, etc.), about once every three months since their cinemadvent a year and a half ago. Like their aged-in-wood gags, it now has a chiefly historical charm...