Word: lowest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days later Russia permitted its pet party, the Communist-run SED, to blurt out an announcement of a Russian new deal in the Soviet zone. Some of the promises: reduction in reparations from current production; a 200-300% increase of the zone's industrial level; abolition of the lowest ("starvation") ration card. Meanwhile, the Russians also appeared to be softening somewhat (at least on the surface) in London...
...only look forward to being kicked out of the Government and waiting to see how far the Government would go to smash his party and end his opposition for good. Said he, mulling over a TIME report (Dec. 9) that had said he had "the highest popularity and the lowest life-expectancy" in Poland: "Lowest life-expectancy. It's true, it's true. But still, it's cruel to read...
...pick-&-shovel men sank a shaft laboriously through layers of "recent" graves. Below the lowest they found what they sought: a great tomb 50 ft. wide and 150 ft. long. It was built of sun-dried mud brick, not finely chiseled stone, for it dated from the dim beginning years, when Great-Grandmother Egypt herself was young...
...other futures buying, it would be down to $1.92⅝ by May and $1.75 by July.) With some 4,300,000 cattle fattening in the nation's feed lots (the alltime high, in 1943: 4,445,000), livestock prices in Chicago dropped "to $22.75 a hundredweight, the lowest since meat was decontrolled...
...race seem to be pretty honest about returning what they find. We're able to give back about nine out of every ten articles the boys come in here looking for. Mostly they are things that the finder has no use for, like books. We have the lowest average on things like fountain pens and automatic pencils--when someone finds a Parkers 51 under their seats they seem to just pocket it without a second thought...