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Poor discipline and short-handedness were usual conditions of Congress's navy, which reached its peak in 1777 and then declined rapidly to seven vessels. Three-masted and square-rigged, the frigates and sloops of war were small and fast, with a gun range as far as one-half mile. Of the three top U. S. commanders, John Paul Jones is the best known in history and balladry. Son of a Scotch gardener, a true corsair and soldier of fortune, he served first under John Barry and Hopkins. When given command of a sloop, he sailed to Brest, seized many...
...During the second half of 1937 U. S. commodity prices (1 remained stable, 2 continued their inflationary rise, 3 fell sharply from the spring peak, 4 rose on farm products but declined on metals, 5 were forced down by the Government...
Last fall, when 5,000 New York City kosher butchers staged a widely-publicized meat strike, even U. S. bachelors recognized a situation which had irked U. S. housewives all year-meat prices were at a six-year peak (TIME, Oct. 4 & 18). By mid-January the U. S. Department of Agriculture recorded retail meat prices way down from their peaks of September 30-sirloin steak from 48? to 32? a lb., leg of lamb from 29? to 26?, pork chops from 42? to 29?, veal cutlets from 43? to 39?. By last week wholesale cattle prices were...
...course there are several other big differences between the squads, but they were not too evident today because of the light vein in which the practice was conducted form the Bruins' point of view. It was merely a conditioning work-out for a team which had already reached its peak...
...Deal disapproves of this on the ground that the system of subsidiary operating companies, pyramided to a peak in Wall Street, provides an irresistible chance to overcapitalize at the expense of stockholder and consumer. Hence, while Electric Bond & Share"undertook a major court battle against the holding company "death sentence," United presented seven successive plans to SEC, all designed to enable it to continue to exist in the form of an investment trust. Having turned all the plans down, SEC anticipated few friendly overtures. When these suddenly came from Mr. Whitney about the time that Franklin Roosevelt declared a truce...