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...fortnight ago as part of the coal strike settlement. Ore prices edged up. So did pig iron. In Birmingham, two plants boosted prices $3 a ton. Scrap dealers were tightly hanging on to their scrap for the expected big boost and an acute shortage was in the making. The pattern of price increases among suppliers was plain; Pittsburgh gossiped that certain types of steel would soon rise anywhere from...
...price rises in one week of free markets, big as some were, were not enough to persuade Wall Street that this was to be the pattern. The stockmarket rose slightly at the beginning of the week, then sagged down again. For four years, the Big Bull market had been riding up on inflation. Now, when there were cries on all sides that the greatest inflation was yet to come, cold-eyed speculators were not so sure. They wanted to be surer before they...
...Balkans were neither romantic nor obscure nor confusing. The situation last week was hideous, crystal-clear and simple. The Balkans formed a sharply contoured pattern of forces representing all that was worst in postwar Europe...
...great surprise of classical physicists, the electrons, recorded on a screen after they went through the holes, made a wave "interference" pattern. The experiment proved that, somehow, each electron went through both holes at once. The discovery, a great blow to the notion that matter is indivisible, led to the theory that a particle can be broken up into fields of energy which alternately reinforce and cancel each other, exactly like waves...
...Chicago, the atomic physicists reported that experiments with neutrons had spectacularly confirmed the wave mechanics theory. Like electrons, neutrons shot through a crystal produced a "diffraction pattern," which showed that they were really waves...