Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reason to be thankful. In the midst of hunger and want it knew unequaled prosperity. The year's harvest was the biggest in history. With few exceptions, everyone who wanted a job had one. Labor got a third round of wage increases, and strikes were at a postwar low. Prices inched upward and everyone worried, complained, and talked about them. But the U.S. citizen was earning more actual buying power than ever before. He also managed to save some money (personal savings were up $4.9 billion over 1947). The year's crop of babies pushed the population...
Unless year-end contributions to churches and charities take an unexpected spurt, said Manhattan's Golden Rule Foundation this week, U.S. giving in 1948 will stand at an alltime low-only 1% of the national income. During the depressed '30s, said the foundation (which bases its reports on income-tax deductions), contributions averaged about...
...four-month playing season. There were just not enough pro football fans to support three Chicago teams or three New York teams. (New York was about to get a fourth-the National League's Boston Yanks, moving to the big city because attendance in Boston fell as low as 6,800.) And the two leagues had steadfastly failed to get together even for crosstown contests, let alone a World Series...
...this low prefatory note, Comic-Stripper Al Capp introduced his glorified comic book, The Life & Times of the Shmoo (Simon & Schuster; $1), published Dec. 2. By last week, The Shmoo had sold 133,752 copies. It was far outselling the No. 1 nonfiction bestseller, Robert E. Sherwood's Roosevelt & Hopkins-which cost six times as much and was at least six times as hard to read...
There is very little plot to get in the way of the nonsense. Two-gun Cowgirl Calamity Jane (Jane Russell) is released from a jail sentence to track down some low characters who are smuggling rifles and firewater to the Indians. When three of these gimlet-eyed fellows trap her in a bath house (where she keeps her guns slung to her garters), she plugs them and larrups away with a hunt-and-peck dentist, Dr. Painless Peter Potter (Hope). She marries Painless for the sake of appearances, then gets rather fond of him. Whenever he gets...