Word: lowest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said Mr. Churchill, "we shall be definitely better off ... at the end of 1943." U.S. and Canadian shipbuilding exceeded losses by 1,250,000 tons† in the last half of 1942 ("It is not much but it is something"). In the past two months sinkings were the lowest they have been in over a year. Every U-boat afloat in the first year of war averaged 19 sinkings; in the second, twelve; in the third, only seven and a half. Casualties among U-boats, on the other hand, have steadily increased. But they do not yet equal Germany...
Blue Hills Observatory reported a temperature of 19 degrees below yesterday morning, the second lowest reading in 58 years of records. The all-time low was on February 9, 1934. With the continuing cold there is a good chance that this record may be broken during the current wave...
...Reader Lacey ponder other Agriculture Department figures; 54% of the total U.S. farm increase in milk production in 1942 over 1941 came from the 500,000 lowest-income farms, 5% of the increase in pork, 10% eggs, 32% beef, 19% chickens...
...other two contestants, Kirkland and Eliot are bottom names on the standing list, and will battle to keep from being put down on the record as lowest team in the House league. They face off at 10:00 o'clock...
...inkling of a bitter truth: they were face to face with the most serious butter shortage in the history of a country that once overflowed with milk. The huge stocks of butter in storage were almost gone, and just beginning was winter, when butter production normally sinks to the lowest levels of the year...