Word: lowerings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That would mean air-tight controls on all wages and prices; across-the-board rationing; higher taxes for everyone; no Government spending on such luxuries as social legislation. That would bring lower prices at the corner grocery. It would also mean lower wages, lower profits, and lower farm income. Whether or not the U.S. people were willing to swallow such bitter medicine, neither political party would'dare prescribe it in an election year...
...Vice Presidential Nominee Glen Taylor): "Soak a radio clown for ten days and ten nights in the rectified juices of all the cow-state Messiahs ever heard of, and you will have him to the life"; (on the convention): "The percentage of downright half-wits has been definitely lower than in, say, the Democratic Convention...
...death rates, the U.S. Public Health Service announced last week, the average white woman's life expectancy is 70.3 years, that of white-men, 65.1.* The margin of difference between the races has been narrowing since 1900, but the average life span of non-whites is still much lower: for non-white women, 61 years; for non-white men, 57.5. General U.S. average is nearly 67 years, which is one year longer than in 1945, two years longer than...
Between the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day's occupations That is known as the Children's Hour...
Died. Leo Bulgakov, 59, Russian-born actor-producer and onetime member of the famed Moscow Art Theater; of coronary thrombosis; in Binghamton, N.Y. Bulgakov left Russia for a U.S. tour in 1923, staged highly acclaimed Broadway and Yiddish Theater adaptations of The Cherry Orchard and The Lower Depths, never went back to Moscow...