Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rugged, deceptive high-low Wasatch mountain range Trip 4 was the fifth commercial airliner to crash since 1934 for a total of 61 lives. For United Air Lines, holder of the National Safety Council's 1941 safety certificate, it marked the end of 17 months, and 409,000,000 revenue passenger miles, without fatality to passenger or crew...
...Plane for Refugees. In the midst of writing these words, I heard a sudden roar, looked overhead at a transport plane circling in low. I heard cries: "Hurray, Hurray" from American enlisted men as the plane circled and landed. "Don't that plane look good. Go kiss it." Someone sang God Bless America...
...sheep which we put in a burlap bag, for emergency, but someone has stolen these already and we will have to manage to get along on a can of cheese we discovered in the litter of belongings in this abandoned Headquarters. Our supply of boiled water is very low and unless we soon find Stilwell I am afraid we must drink whatever we can find in the dirty ditches along the way. Everything is happening so quickly that I cannot write a coordinated story...
...others have a less depressing explanation: that the progress of World War II has been marked by a two-year lag between U.S. and British experience. London hit its market low in the summer of 1940, after the collapse of France. Thereafter its war production drive became singleminded, Throgmorton Street became practically impervious to bad news (including the fall of Singapore), and the market reacted mainly to the compulsion of too much money and too few goods. The U.S. had its Dunkirk at Pearl Harbor, only five months ago, and the same forces are only now beginning to be severely...
...provision is made for price adjustments in case unit volume falls off so sharply as to eliminate profits. This problem-like most of the rest of the order-hits low-price manufacturers and distributors hardest of all, may well mean that some narrow-margin merchandise will disappear from the market...