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Some ten yards from the bank the left tread of the rear tank climbed out of the treadway. The tank teetered for a fraction of a second, then the pontoons shifted. With treads still grinding and motor roaring, the tank plunged off the submerging treadway into the river, sank in a swirl of bubbling water. Almost on top of it plunged the tank ahead, down into the river out of sight...
...eleventh of the Battle of the Solomons, the U.S. was confronted by some figures and a crisis: U.S. Marines, soldiers and sailors had damaged 51 and sunk eleven ships and destroyed 340 planes in the Solomons area since Aug. 7, while their own announced losses had been only a fraction as high. But the U.S. forces were in trouble as they had not been since Bataan fell. Against the Guadalcanal beachhead held by Marines (plus some recent Army arrivals) the Japs poured wave on wave of cruisers, destroyers, planes and transports brimming with...
This talk of saving the taxpayer money was of course sheer eyewash since the Treasury, if it chose to put out short enough maturities, could finance the war at a fraction of 1%, or for nothing if it issued greenbacks. Moreover, a 2¼% longer term issue would not have been out of line with current Government bond yields. But the Treasury feared that if it put out such an issue just now investors in the future might demand this higher rate on shorter maturities. This would jack up the price of money all around and might-so the argument...
...exporters. To maintain its transportation system Brazil in 1940 imported 1.3 million tons of coal, nine million barrels of oil and gasoline. Though approximately 70% of all shipping from the U.S. to South America's east coast is carrying coal as cargo, Brazil gets only a fraction of her needs. Tankers seldom visit her ports. No private automobiles ride the once busy streets of Rio and Sao Paulo, bus schedules have been slashed, many vital rail services are cut by half, other routes suspended. Even wood-burning steamers plowing the muddy Amazon River to Manaos are stopped: the woodcutters...
...week's end the Ballet Theatre was doing the biggest business in its recent history and losing money hand over fist. Of its $30,000-a-week budget, only a fraction was coming in at the box office. The rest was coming from the company's dance-daft angel, Lucia Chase, widow of Yonkers' carpet tycoon, Thomas Ewing Jr. Unlike most ballet patrons, Angel Chase is a professional ballerina, dances bit solo roles, solemnly draws a $75 weekly paycheck while regularly losing an estimated $150,000 a year making up the Ballet Theatre's deficit...