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...bridge stayed up all week. Central London had a monumental jam; traffic was tangled in three-mile snarls in some areas. London Bridge carried most of the added load, and it took 20 minutes for busses and other vehicles to crawl across it during peak traffic hours. Thousands of Londoners walked-and muttered Billingsgate curses on the Billingsgate strike...
...Founder Bell had built up the company from virtually nothing in 1935 into a major producer of war planes and equipment. They were pleased when it emerged into the postwar period with a net worth of some $19,000,000, delighted when Bell voluntarily slashed his salary from a peak of over $100,000 to $55,000 a year...
History 5, pre-war baby of the survey courses and currently the fastest growing, has moved into third place in popularity, jumping from 449 to 529. Former perennial monarch, History 1, is now in fourth place with a 513 total, down from its 1933 heyday peak of 828 when College enrollment rarely topped...
...cycles that some hard-headed businessmen and conservative economists may dismiss the whole thing as moonshine. Nevertheless, Dewey, who insists that the theory is based on objective facts, was an accurate enough prophet to predict, in 1943, what many experts are now saying, that the boom would reach its peak in 1947. And Shelf Union Oil Corp., welcoming even a beam of moonshine in the murky field of economics, has recommended the book for its executives...
...example, Dewey & Dakin contend that the building cycle reached its peak in late 1942. Because the cycle is now on the downgrade, the expected boom will probably not develop. In the last month, builders have jittered over the same thing. But they blame it on high prices. Dewey & Dakin say it was in the cards all along...