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...Ugly Child" or senseless since both rank way up near the top. Brunis plays that trombone through chorus after chorus of the fastest New Orleans march tempo imaginable without a noticeable flaw. Wettling furnishes some especially tasteful background drumming on the wood blocks, and Davison is again at his peak...
...nation's wartime birth rate is declining (from a peak of 3.2 million in 1943). The Census Bureau expects the birth rate to level off, for the remaining war years, at about 2.1 million annually. Peace will probably bring a temporary birth boom as war marriages begin producing and postponed marriages get under way; then the birth rate is expected to slump again. The U.S. is faced with the prospect of a declining population within 50 years...
...manufacturing corporations up a whacking 23% in the last year, profits had risen so little-with renegotiation still in the offing for some companies. Taxes and bigger operating costs were finally outpacing the swelling production of many a corporation. They are still making plenty of money, but the peak may well be past...
...farmers, reported the Department of Agriculture, paid off $467 million of their mortgage debt last year. This left their total mortgage debt at $5.6 billion, lowest figure in 27 years, 48% under 1923's peak. Few farmers have forgotten their mad scramble for more land at any price during World War I, followed by the collapse of the farm boom in 1922. When the topheavy mortgage structure crashed during the Depression, 85,000 farmers were wiped out by foreclosure. Now land values are creeping upward again as farm income soars to an alltime high. But the farmers will...
...high hilltop, every day, all day long, an R.A.F. lieutenant equipped with binoculars and telephone sits on a fuel can, spotting aircraft. Two other spotters are Partisan girls roosting on the island's only snow-clad peak. When planes approach they signal by firing their rifles, and these signals are relayed in like manner to battle headquarters, which sounds a siren to alert the island's anti-aircraft gunners...