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...that such a massacre would have sown rebellion in Morocco for decades to come. He chose the harder job of forcing a straightforward surrender. In their strongholds, the leaders kept the Berbers at a pitch by preaching "Death before surrender." The French began a tedious, hazardous prowling up the peaks, picking off snipers. In one desperate skirmish they killed the Berber Generalissimo Sidi Ben Ahmed. Some of his rattled followers climbed to a stronghold on the mighty Tizier Ouzine peak. French native troops dragged up deadly 75-mm. guns. Last week the 755 spoke systematically, blew peak and stronghold...
...Steel Corp. high up on a figurative Mount Ararat where in three months time Steel breathed $97,000,000 worth of the pure air of profit. Never since has Steel reached any such altitude but the flood of 1929 boosted it to a lesser peak, a Mount Sinai of nearly $55,000,000. The far side of that mountain fell away, steeply, right down to the Red Sea. In two years Steel got to sea level, in three years to the bottom of the sea- $16,000,000 deep by the first quarter...
...activity has slackened now that it is too late to beat the code. Although the steel code is not yet in effect there were indications that businessmen had about finished stocking up on steel: the steady three-month climb of steel production had tapered off. Operations fell from a peak of 59% of capacity three weeks...
...peak of the market his paper profits were more than $100,000,000 but Doc Crawford continued to lunch at a Horn & Hardart Automat...
Manhattan's Daily Advertiser advertised the U. S.'s first panorama show (Jerusalem) in 1790, "at Lawrence Hyer's Tavern, between the Gaol and the Tea Water Pump; the sight is most brilliant by candlelight." The U. S. panorama fad reached its peak in the 1850's, faded fast...