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Their parts were fabricated in inland mills shipped to the yard for assembly. The first keel was laid Feb. 12, 1918, the last 22 months later. The first ship was launched Aug. 5, 1918-less than eleven months after the yard was begun. At peak production, a keel was laid every five and one-half days. One day in 1919 five ships smoked down the ways into the Delaware in 48 minutes, ten seconds...
...Popular singers in Berlin include several who have sung in the U. S.: Soprano Frida Leider, a success at the Chicago and Metropolitan operas, now devoting herself to Lieder as well as opera; Contralto Sigrid Onegin, whose voice is no longer at its peak. Oddly, a British singer, Marjorie Booth, gets much applause at the State Opera. So, at the Charlottenburg Opera, does an American, tall, blonde, 25-year-old Polyna Stoska...
...below the previous fall's false war boom. But whereas 1939's false boom was really confined to raw commodity prices, 1940's advance carried up practically all prices of manufactured goods. By mid-November, when the spot-price index was still under its September 1939 peak, the Bureau's much broader index of 863 wholesale prices had passed the 1939 peak, was up to 79.7% of its 1926 average. In short, manufacturers and processors all along the line had passed on their higher raw material costs to their customers and ended by charging the ultimate...
...Sept. 22 they were up 27%-to a World War II high. The sharpest rise occurred understandably in import necessities: wool tops up 50% in two weeks, shellac up 74% in three. The more representative all-commodity index, reflecting industrial as well as raw commodity prices, reached a peak at 79.5, up only...
...last week let out a few facts which indicated that he had not yet given similar instructions to his own Administration. The Department reported that in October U. S. exports to Japan were up 47% from September to $26,195,000-$3,138,000 under their 1939-40 monthly peak...