Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Congressional reaction to the Brannan plan indicates that it will probably not be adopted in this session and certainly will not be adopted without extensive modifications. The Administration looks for great political appeal in the plan--to the farmers with high support prices, and to labor with low market prices. Although at present the plan is largely the result of campaign promises, it contains some interesting possibilities for a long range agricultural plan...
Rheumatoid arthritis claims some 7,000,000 victims in the U.S. Looking for a cure, doctors have tried just about everything, including high-calorie diets, low-calorie diets, vitamins A, B, C and D, typhoid vaccine, streptococcus vaccine, artificial fever, blood transfusions, injections of milk and horse serum, aspirin and whisky (for pain), massage, dry heat, mineral baths, metals such as gold, change of climate, psychotherapy, exercise and rest in bed. Some of the treatments proved to be harmless, some harmful. Some even seemed to work, but only for a while...
Fair: Poor. The first postwar German trade fair in the U.S., sponsored by the Allied Military Government, finished its 16-day stand in Manhattan. Orders were heaviest for china ($250,000), office machinery ($120,000) and cameras and optical instruments ($100,000). Total business was a low $1,200,000, but the Germans hoped the sample orders would eventually bring many more...
...footsloggers a hand. Wearing his finest uniform, "all togged out like a Christmas tree," the famed Rock of Chickamauga "rode along the line, bellowing in a voice audible to every man within a hundred yards that help was coming; all they had to do was keep down and shoot low...
Captain Bill Rickenbacker also hit a 74, to make a three way tie for the day's low...