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...toward opening up previously inaccessible seas, will lengthen the navigation season in relatively mild northern waters by weeks -or months. Capable of crunching through 8-ft. ice floes, cruising for a solid year without refueling, it will be able to chart unexplored Arctic shore lines and ocean depths, dump supplies and heavy equipment on islands previously supplied by air alone, serve as a base for weather observations beyond present navigation limits. Said Northern Affairs Minister Alvin Hamilton last week: "No single project could do so much for the north...
Shaking off warnings from the Federal Reserve-and many a market analyst-investors continued to buy stocks and dump bonds last week in a speculative drive that sent Dow-Jones industrials up 2.15 points to 508.28, within four points of the year's high. While confidence in the nation's overall economic health is a factor in the rise, soaring stock prices have outdistanced foreseeable earnings. A bigger factor is the fear of inflation, which has grown so strong that many investors break previously accepted rules in their race to cover themselves against a possible decline...
...Fumble. But in June the merry-go-round slowed down, as the recession bottomed out and business started up. Speculators, anticipating renewed inflation and Government tightening of credit, started getting out. As Government bond prices fell, shoestring speculators were forced to dump their holdings, driving down prices more. One new Treasury issue, the 2⅝% bonds, fell to 95.16 last week, despite the Treasury's unusual step, in July, of buying back nearly $600 million of the issue. An even sharper skid hit the 3¼% issue: it dropped...
...feet of pigs" were kept in a beetle-infested cellar). To get his story, he wandered in and around Wigan (population then a little under 87,000), and the account of these wanderings still makes the reader feel that he has been dragged heels first through a municipal garbage dump. Orwell lived in rooms that smelled "like a ferret's cage" and ate unmentionable meals at tables under which there was sometimes a full chamber pot. Even Louis-Ferdinand Céline's vomitive delineation of the Paris slums could not bring more repulsive social maggots into focus...
...shamelessly trailing clouds of Sweet Caporal and leering at passing virgins in an abandoned manner." He favored "Java rat-tail cigars, a contriving of Pain's fireworks dimensions which burned with a clear blue flame like a fuse and possessed an aroma comparable to that of Cambridgeport city dump...