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...farm; and they warned him not to describe again how the peach trees looked in the spring. Pastula sang softly until his throat became too parched. Dixon, impatient, worried but cheerfully profane, decided to head for islands in the south. He drew a chart on a piece of canvas. With the salvaged line of rope and a life jacket, he rigged up a sea anchor which steadied the bobbing raft when winds were contrary...
...21st day a floating coconut provided slightly brackish milk and meat. By then, as far as he could tell, Dixon was "somewhere in the vicinity of Ireland." Trying to catch another albatross, he had upset the boat and lost his chart...
...consecutive months Department of Commerce figures for retail sales have topped the year before, but the chart at right shows the worm in this shiny apple: January was the fourth consecutive month when the only reason dollar volume was up was that the public was paying more money to get less goods. Ever since last October the physical volume sold has been lower than it was a year before, and the seeming increase in sales has been an optical illusion caused entirely by rising prices. Retail prices are now rising 2% a month. If that trend continues, year...
...twelve essays in The Wind is Rising, covering the twelve grimmest months in the bloody biennium from August 1939 to August 1941, chart the wavering course of Tomlinson's adjustment to the fact that this war is different. He writes: "I still think war an obscene outrage on the intelligence. I should not be in the least upset by what Communists call the downfall of British Imperialism. I see no reason to alter a line of what I wrote of war and peace in Mars His Idiot. . . . But this challenge by the Nazis is ultimate. . . . I know that some...
...British formula of 1940 held that a minimum of inflation follows a war finance program of one-half taxes, one-half loans. Britain soon fell behind this goal; so did the U.S. (see chart). For the fiscal year ending next June 1943, budgeted defense expenditures tot up to $56 billions, all expenditures to $59 billions. Even after the proposed $8 billions in new taxes, annual revenues in sight are $26 billions. More than half, therefore, must be borrowed...