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...Friday morning, stocks slipped. Then the utility stocks, hardest hit of all by New Deal reforms, began to climb. The rest of the market scrambled after them. At the end of the 1,800,000-share day, busiest in weeks, the utilities were at 29.25, a seven years' peak...
Stahl, who early this week expressed his fear of the greater experience in the fliers' lineup, has been directing his charges in a heavy schedule of practice games to drive them to their peak efficiency before the coming opener...
Powerful forces are ranged along the border. At peak strength the Russians probably had 800,000 trained troops, with modern armor and planes, in Siberia. The Japs' crack Kwantung army, which holds its mandate direct from the Emperor and runs Manchuria like a private estate, may have 1,000,000 men. The Red Army took many of its best Siberian divisions west to fight the Germans in the last three years; they may or may not have been replaced. On the other hand, six Jap divisions from Manchuria were chopped up in the Philippines...
...more of a sight to the doughboys was the fabulous Adlerhorst (Eagle's Nest), Hitler's 20th-century eyrie on a peak west of Bad Nauheim. The rock-hewn retreat, served by three miles of subterranean corridors, sported 1,000 air-conditioned rooms with hidden exposures of the rustic scene below...
Professor Leontief, choosing the middle road between the two other speakers, took issue with Hayek's thesis that society has, after several thousand years of growth, reached the peak of its development, beyond which we can progress no further. In seeking to forestall the inevitable evolution of the planned economy, Hayek is attempting, said-Leontief, to "prevent, as it were, the consummation of a solar eclipse...