Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cabinet colleagues, believes in frankly telling Britons what they face. Last week his White Paper (Economic Survey for 1948) gave them the blackest news yet. Even with Marshall Plan aid, said his report, Britons' standard of living at year's end will be "appreciably, but not disastrously" lower than last year's. Without such aid, Britain would be flat broke (in terms of dollars). Food rations would have to be cut to near-starvation levels. Imports of raw materials would have to be slashed, causing mass unemployment. Britain's whole industrial machine would begin...
...going to? Everything was up: even the frogs used in biology laboratories had jumped from 72? to $2.25 a dozen. The biggest expenses: more buildings and higher faculty salaries. The University of Washington has started a $20 million building program-to complete the upper campus in "collegiate Gothic," the lower campus in modernistic glass-&-brick. Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe is building a functional $15 million Illinois Institute of Technology in a tumbledown neighborhood on Chicago's South Side. CalTech needs $5,000,000 just to maintain the new telescope on Palomar Mountain...
...Roman Catholic Church. The profit motive, Father Smith said, was "legitimate if kept within bounds [but] the primary purpose of an economic system is to provide a living for all and not, therefore, huge profits for the few, with some measure of what remains trickling down to the lower levels. This is the age-old traditional Catholic teaching. Unfortunately . . . even among Catholics ... it has received scarcely any support...
Tamworth: 26 to 30 inches of snow, three inches of powder, upper trail skiing good, lower trail skiing excellent, tow is running...
...Water. Lockheed Aircraft Corp. announced that its 92-ton, four-motored Constitution, world's second biggest land-based transport plane, would be delivered to the Navy in four months. On the upper deck of the double-decked fuselage (see cut), the plane will carry 92 passengers. On the lower deck, connected by a circular staircase, it can carry another 76 passengers. Though the Constitution was built expressly for the Navy (which has another one on order), Lockheed has high hopes for it as a commercial plane. At nearly the same cruising speed (300 m.p.h.) as the Constellation...