Word: leveling
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Windsor, do swear that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to His Majesty King George, his heirs and successors according to law, so help me God." On a special dais, a step below the Duke but, in deference to her title, a step above the floor level, sat the Duchess, fanning herself with a palm-leaf fan to relieve the stifling heat...
Perched on a plateau 2,000 ft. above sea level is Canberra (pronounced Can'b'rra), the inconvenient "garden city" capital of Australia, whose statesmen stay away from it as much as they can. The ministries relating to defense are at Melbourne on the seacoast, and the easygoing Cabinet likes to meet there or in Sydney, where it uses the air-conditioned offices of Amalgamated Wireless Co. (The Government offices are not air-conditioned). One morning last week Army Minister Brigadier Geoffrey Austin Street found in Melbourne that there was nothing for it but he must...
...weather always comes up on the other side of that mountain. The White cabin stands at 9,000 ft. above sea level; Longs Peak rises in its square-topped majesty 5,255 ft. above that; and north and south the peaks of the Rockies repeat like mirrored reflections in the depthless blue air -the Never Summer Range on the Continental Divide, Mount Alice and Flattop, Estes Cone and Specimen, Thunderbolt, Mummy, Sawtooth and Nimbus-some of the more than 10,000-ft. mountains that lie within the Park and give it the peaceful air of being...
...have not run away. The Bureau of Labor Statistics index for 28 basic commodities was last week only 106.8, less than seven points above pre-war August 1939, and well down from last September's peak of 127.2. Meanwhile the price index of finished manufactured goods held practically level. The industrial raw materials index was 66.5 before the war, 72.3 in September, only 70.8 three weeks ago. Hence most businessmen do not yet fear runaway prices. Actually, they are more alarmed by the idea of price-fixing by the New Deal...
From then on, Ab Jenkins' hobby became his profession. Backed by manufacturers of tires, oil, gasoline, he began to build racing cars, drive them in endurance runs. In 1932 he "discovered" Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats. On its marble-hard salt, 4,300 ft. above sea level, he set his first endurance record with a 24-hour grind at an average speed of 112 m.p.h. When he upped his speed in 1933 and 1934, British auto racers sat up and took notice. To Bonneville with their 6-ton monsters went Racers George Eyston and John Cobb...