Word: lowest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...city. On the north side of the town, where troops of the 37th Infantry and 1st Cavalry Divisions were still hunting out Jap snipers, a command car whisked across the city limits, pulled up near a command post. Within a few minutes the word had gone down to the lowest ranks; "It's MacArthur!" Douglas MacArthur had lost no time getting back to the capital he had evacuated on Christmas Eve 1941, after declaring it an open city to save it from destruction by the Japs. He made a swift inspection of the areas his troops had al ready...
...steel industry was in a production slump and fighting bitterly to keep it from getting worse. Its last week's output of 1,553,684 tons was the lowest for any nonholiday period since April 28, 1941. Total production loss since the week of Jan. 13, when the slump started, has been over 500,000 tons...
Hearst is making money again. The greatest vegetable growth in publishing history-which William Randolph Hearst watered with his father's fortune, wrapped in his country's flag and dunged with an unerring taste for the lowest vulgar denominator-is once more full of sap, and blossoming with green and glossy banknotes. Soon the "Hearst empire" expects to be out of hock. From Maine to California last week came the evidence...
...frequent employers of Technicolor. Universal's dabblings, in this case at any rate, descend to color per so. In black-and-white, "Can't Help Singing" would be nothing. Even with Color, music by Jerome Kern, and stiff, conventional acting by Deanna Durbin and Robert Paige, it represents the lowest in a painfully low series...
...Selective Service Act gives the Government control over all Canadian men & women between 16 and 65. Under the law, the armed services get first pick of the Dominion's men; those left over are automatically mobilized into the civilian army. All workers are registered and their skills classified. Lowest classifications: bartenders, florists, taxi men, candy salesmen, etc. Many cannot quit a job without permission. No one can even advertise for a job, or for a worker, without a permit. N.S.S. Director Arthur MacNamara (also Deputy Minister of Labor) is empowered to shift any worker to a job where...