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...Bethlehem Steel (selling under 80 and paying $3.75), United Aircraft (selling at 48 and paying $2.75), nearly a 5% rate of return on the cream of U. S. business. Traders with cash balanced the temptation to snap up these bargains against the thought that fresh Allied disasters might well knock the market down to still more attractive bargain levels before defense spending takes hold...
...Ceilings of its turrets are reinforced concrete ten feet thick, low to the ground like the Maginot Line. Speculation as to what manner of weapon could paralyze the defenders of such a place centred on two possibilities: 1) Bombs (perhaps liquid oxygen) of such strength that their concussion would knock unconscious if not kill any living thing within half a mile - a means that left some question of how Lieut. Witzig and his two assistants managed to survive...
...champion was fixing to buy a ranch with the $10,000 he had earned in seven minutes. "Bring on Henry Armstrong next," drawled the Sweetwater Swatter, itching to get his anvil-strong hands on the welterweight (147 Ib.) champion. "In 30 rounds, Armstrong couldn't knock out the boy ah knocked out in three, so ah ought to do all right with Henry," he added...
...Mike") Weber, 72, and Lew ("Meyer") Fields, 73, promptly went into their 63-year-old act at Grand Central Terminal: Meyer cuffed Mike, shook him like an apple tree. When they paused for breath, Weber growled: "All people ever wanted to see us for is to watch Lew knock the hell out of me." Mourned
...Oilmen can only wait to see what war will bring by way of an export market. But always dependable are U. S. motorists; last week their demand for gasoline was up about 6% over 1939. Yet oilmen still had small reason to hope that rising U. S. consumption would knock the hump out of gasoline's inventory curve. Nor were war and winter alone to blame. More important than either in oil's overproduction is an unlovely derrick forest in Southern Illinois...