Word: lowness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gotten so clearly from their own press or their government. Britons who, when they got the U.S. loan, complained that U.S. prices were too high (and would cut down the amount of goods Britain would be able to buy in the U.S.) now cried that U.S. prices were too low; British manufacturers could not compete with them. Other Laborite headlines: "Stop the Sneers," "Warning to Americans," "They Are Slinging Mud at Britain." Tory Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express had its own summary of these goings-on, and it was all but unique in Britain: "Judging by the undignified outburst...
Clark's estimates were close to those made by the New York Times's Will Lissner (TIME, Dec. 29, 1947). Nevertheless, none of his comparisons was likely to give the democratic world any conviction that Russia was politically unstable. In spite of a low IU, the police state still had the means to enforce poverty at home, to concentrate on conquest abroad...
...some form, poliomyelitis is probably one of the commonest diseases. Current medical opinion is that nearly everybody gets it, but usually in so mild a form that it seems to be only a sick headache, or a low fever, not unlike a cold. Millions of such cases are never recognized. The lucky victim, once his system has thrown off the virus, appears to be immune to further attacks...
Usually the peak comes in the 36th week of the calendar year or the 26th week of the "polio year" (which begins after the low point in mid-March). This year, since the disease got off to a flying start in an early hot spell, the peak may well come early. In the South, where polio strikes sooner, new cases reported have already leveled off and should decline from now on; the North may have to wait three or four weeks for a drop...
...pulp magazines, the moral was even plainer: no matter how low their standards for fiction, the comics could find lower ones...