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...bottom of the lagoon sent waves through the coral and underlying material. The denser the medium, the faster such waves travel. By measuring how long the waves took to reach listening instruments, the Navy's scientists could estimate the density of the rock at various depths (see chart...
Clearly out of relation with supply & demand, the prices of some other commodities also began to slide. There was not enough time left in 1946 for a general turn in the inflationary tide. But commodities-and retail prices-had leveled off (see chart). The Commerce Department's retail price index rose 28.9 points to above 170 (1935-39 average: 100). But except for rents (and there was little popular support of the effort to take the ceilings off them), the violent adjustments in prices had apparently been made...
...signs of tiring as the year opened. Through the steel, auto, coal and thousands of little strikes, the market went serenely onward & upward, in a sort of economic Indian rope trick, as profits-and production-went from bad to worse in the first half of the year (see chart). So many little people rushed in to buy that the Stock Exchange spent $750,000 in newspaper and magazine ads to warn the lambs away from the wolves. On May 29, the Dow-Jones industrial averages reached 212.5, then turned queasy. But it was not till Sept. 3 that the collapse...
Staffers found him an enthusiast for elaborate planning. A handy man with a presentation chart, Logan added several fancy sidelines, e.g., a crew of picture-book specialists to create such books as Wallace Stegner's One Nation, the Look at America series...
...securities for the job. Last week G.M.'s wad was so close to being shot that the company announced it would soon try to raise $100 million by floating a million new shares of preferred stock. G.M.'s cash on hand had fallen to $160 million (see chart), and this only three months after G.M. had borrowed $125 million from insurance companies...