Word: lows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rest of them, he had a poor opinion of the human race. Either self-indulgence or self-interest is always well downstage in Love for Love; there is no love for love's sake. But where most Restoration writers were gross, Congreve was graceful. His people air their low thoughts in high language; his scandalmongers are witty; his sluts have style...
...pantomimic face makes an otherwise modiocre revue well worth seeing. Unchallenged master of the soft-shoe dance, Ray brought the house down with his hilarious parodies of the latter-day rhumba and jitterbug, and then went on to display further talents as a top-notch practitioner of low comedy in several skits that would have done credit to the Old Howard in its better days...
...York Stock Exchange jumped about 30% to a total of 1,314,391 shares. It is now the highest since December 1945 and the rise was the sharpest since 1934. Despite this bearish view of the future, the New York Stock Exchange rallied from the year's low. At week's end the Dow-Jones industrial averages were up over three points...
...Even so, "the world's available export supplies . . . are too small to provide the additional tonnages needed by importing countries to keep basic rations at the winter level, which itself was too low for comfort or for health and good working energy." That means that the peoples who were hungry last winter will be hungrier this winter...
...Rice production in the Far East is still low; rice-consuming countries will continue to need shipments of wheat and other grains...