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Meanwhile ocean freight rates have soared, further boosting revenue per sea mile. Rates on six basic commodities (see chart) are 50% above last year, 110% above 1939. Charter rates on deep-sea routes now average $7 to $8.25 a ton a month v. $1 to $1.75 before the war. Hence many a coastwise shipowner has chartered (or sold) most of his vessels, practically retired to a life of Scotch and bridge at the Propeller Club...
Meanwhile housewives-especially farmers' wives-kept up a buying spree (see chart} that sent last month's retail sales to an all-time high...
...market trends frequently have followed London's, after a time lag of varying duration. From war's beginning until last winter, London and New York quotations moved almost as one (see chart). Both markets slid sharply during the Lowlands campaign, hit bottom after Dunkirk and France's fall. Then began a slow recovery, interrupted by another decline with the Nazi spring successes...
Even this wasn't enough. Immediately greedy farm-bloc members began to demand 120% or more of parity as the basic fixing point of up-spiraling farm prices (see chart). This was inflation with a bang...
...Psychological Laboratory's 17 testing stations. He is seated in a chair, asked all manner of questions, submitted to unexpected electric shocks, put to work on an ergograph (machine to test muscle fatigue), given mechanical reflex tests. Without his knowledge a motion-picture camera hidden by a wall chart records every revealing facial reaction, every embarrassed ear-scratching, every fake posturing. His voice is tested for warmth of melody (strong sympathies and emotions) or hard, staccato timbre (calm and determined will power). His reactions to sounds are tried. His hand writing and physical appearance are analyzed. As a test...