Word: lowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Offshore from Santa Monica and Long Beach certain long, low rods of red light glowing steadily through the Pacific nights have marked the positions of California's "floating casinos," the gambling ships Rex, Texas, Showboat and Tango. Rows of scarlet neon lights picked them out from stem to stern. Largest and swankest was the Rex, an old, British-built square-rigger, formerly the collier Kenilworth. She was demasted, equipped with a 400-foot saloon on her main deck containing roulette wheels, crap boards, tables for chemin de fer, chuck-a-luck, anything else a gambler's heart might...
When Mr. Chamberlain rose to answer that evening, he was obviously angry and shaken. His thin face, seldom giving an impression of vitality, was ashen and his voice was husky and low. With heavy sarcasm he wondered that Mr. Churchill dared let Parliament adjourn for even two weeks...
When the bridge was finished, the armored divisions rumbled across to catch up with the troops converging east of Turin. Il Duce, who had flown his own plane from Rimini, watched the maneuvers from the air. He swooped low over the columns crossing the Ticino and was reported to be "pleased at the way they hid themselves from aerial observers...
...good grey little life. Just before 9 o'clock each morning he leaves his apartment on the third floor of a five-story house at No. 55 Avenue Foch, near Paris' Arc de Triomphe. He is driven in a staff car to his office in a long, low, old-fashioned building at No. 4 bis Boulevard des Invalides, below the gold dome of Napoleon's tomb...
Commodities. The Bureau of Labor's wholesale price index hit a new 1939 low-75.2, its bottom since...