Word: lows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...imperious nose resembling a mountain bird's beak, Don Francesco majestically strides along under an immense faded green umbrella; its edges are much frayed by rubbing against the grey stone walls that lean over the narrow, cobbled streets. Shepherds, wrapped in lambskins, and black-shawled women bow low to let the priest's umbrella sweep over them as he sails by. "God be with you, Don Francesco," say the men. "God preserve you and us," say the women...
...When I made my first success," declared low-moaning Torchsinger Libby Holman, thinking back nearly 20 years, "I really didn't know what I was doing. I suppose my voice had a natural quality. . . ." Now, after years of on-&-off retirement, she was singing in a Manhattan nightclub. "Today, I have studied and really feel I understand . . ." said she gravely to an interviewer. "I think so few people know anything about the music that is indigenous to their own country...
Cash-Paying Dealers. The squeeze was also on in medium-and low-priced models. On Detroit's Livernois Avenue, used car center of the U.S., almost all makes of '47 cars were tagged at less than their original price.* In depressing contrast, Kaisers and Frazers (see below) were down $1,000 from list, Oldsmobiles were down $200 below list price, and even Fords, Pontiacs and Plymouths were selling slightly below list...
Blown Good. In 1926 things looked dark again; Benguet's ore was running low. The other stockholders wanted to dissolve the company and split up the $750,000 on hand. Instead, John Haussermann stubbornly insisted on spending some of the cash on prospecting. He won the gamble; a rich new strike put him in a position to buy a lumber company, a power station, and a $300,000 controlling interest in the Balatoc Mining Corp...
...meant that British doctors, already patella-deep in socialized medicine, were not enthusiastic about getting in up to their necks. At present, 17,000 of Britain's 21,000 general practitioners serve under a "panel" system started by Lloyd George in 1911. The system covers 19,500,000 low-income workers who pay 40? a week (their employers an equal amount) for medical care, sickness insurance and pension fund. The doctors, who get about $3 a year for each patient on their panel, may also engage in private practice. The doctors get their steady, bread-&-butter incomes...