Word: lowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anti-foreign movement rampant in China last week was very different. It burned low, and from the outside. Even the stupidest coolie knew that its sole purpose was to drive out white foreigners so that yellow foreigners could inherit the fat of the land. In each of last week's anti-foreign incidents the Japanese mailed fist was either bare or clenched within a Chinese glove...
Administrative efficiency was near an all-time low when Comrade Benediktov took office. One reason: officials, lest they appear to lack revolutionary fervor, stayed at their offices 24 hours a day, were consequently too sleepy to tell a kulak from a zemstvo. Last week the Commissariat of Agriculture predicted, as a result of new good management and the good luck of fine spring weather, a bumper wheat crop of seven to eight billion poods (4,213,183,333 to 4,815,066,666 bushels). The wheat is not yet cut and threshed, and there may be a big discrepancy between...
...Mental instability seems to be influenced by the instability of the weather. . . . With the pressure falling and the temperature rising we are afflicted with a feeling of futility." Statistics of cities lying in stormy areas, such as Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis, show that most suicides occur during periods of low barometric pressure...
Last week the first of the 1940 models had their previews. First to be shown were new Packards, priced $120 to $400 under '39 models. Next day Hudson showed its new line, including a low-priced six, a new, more powerful eight. Nash and Willys-Overland followed. Chrysler will show its new cars next week. Ford, General Motors and Studebaker all expected to show their new lines well before the New York show...
...preferred shares sold at $109½, yielding 7.3% to income-minded buyers who counted on holding it on the possibility that Mr. Davis will offer them a trade-in for U. S. Rubber's common. The common last week sold at $43, up 466% from 1935's low, versus a 42% gain on the Dow-Jones Industrial average...