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Surprisingly, the rush of buying was started again by the rail stocks, though most of the roads chugged past their profit peaks months ago. But at the prospect of heavy war traffic for most of 1945, the Johnny-come-latelies thought there was still time to climb aboard. Even such second-graders as Illinois Central helped lead the rush that put the rails at their peak since...
...they are glad to chuckle at the desperate measures formerly respectable citizens have adopted in the emergency. Employees at Michaels' Drug Store have lost all respect for an aged couple who, after buying at the store together for years, sud- denly feigned non-acquaintance one morn at the peak of the crisis in order to get two packs under the stringent one-to-a-customer basis...
...Naturally they do not crowd around American troops . . . they do not even give a sign that they are aware the Americans are there. Now and again some aged man will find it impossible to avoid the eye of an American, and frequently he will lift a finger to the peak of his cap in a salute neither servile, nor military, nor insolent. American troops have seen nothing quite like these people...
Eleven weeks after the epidemic's peak (TIME, Sept. 25), a belated report-451 new cases of infantile paralysis for the week ending Nov. 18-made it official that 1944 is the second worst polio year in U.S. history. The 18,490 cases thus far reported exceed 1931's full-year total, but are mercifully short...
...steered by radio, since V-111s not and, at the heights to which V-2 climbs (60 miles or more), accurate observation to correct its deviations from the set course would be difficult. With a trajectory like that of a long-range shell, dropping sharply from its peak height, V-2 is probably launched at about a 30° angle from the ground for its 250-300 mile flight...