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Local Negroes rallied, too, instead of fleeing homeward in the usual pattern of fright. In Mink Slide, a rickety Negro business district, they gathered...
Compared to the R.A.F.'s, U.S. bombing technique was deficient in one respect. U.S. bombardiers all dropped their loads on signal from the lead plane, shortening both the pattern and length of their raids, and easing the problems of German damage control squads...
...policies are already established. Wages will be permitted to rise, but Bowles insists that the 18½ pattern set in steel will not be the pattern for all. So will some ceiling prices rise-but as little as possible. For the most part, the wage increases will be squeezed out of profits, which Chet Bowles believes are big enough to stand the pinch...
...radiant heat, which moved with the speed of light (186,000 miles a second). Half a mile away, the heat set clothing and other light, inflammable substances instantly aflame. Dark objects absorbed more radiant heat than light ones. Many a Japanese was branded in stripes from the pattern on his shirt. The gay, flowered designs on the dresses of Japanese women were stenciled in charred exactitude upon their bodies. A mile and a half from the bomb, the flash of heat was strong enough to blister the ace or set a forest afire...
What might have caused alarm was the speed with which the average price of farm land had risen. By November 1945, land prices were 58% higher than in 1939. (During the comparable World War I period, the rise was only 36%.) If prices follow the pattern of the last boom, the steep climb is just starting...