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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...difficulties predicted by scientists to be lying in the transonic area in which other aircraft had wobbled or plunged out of control (some had disintegrated). The XS-1, launched from the belly of a B29, had also reached altitudes never before penetrated by airplanes-up to 70,000 feet (previous record: 56,046 feet, set in 1938 by Colonel Mario Pezzi, an Italian...
...dropped by 7%. Because of last summer's drought, Europe's grain crop was 8,000,000 tons below last year's. Shipments from the great North American granary will be 2,300,000 tons less in this "cropyear" (ending July 1, 1948) than in the previous year...
...heavy was the flood? In the twelve months ended June 30, said Mehl, the dollar value of regulated commodity transactions rose to $33 billion, more than double the previous twelve-month period. Most of the trading was speculative, said Mehl. By the end of June, for example, 90.4% of Chicago corn futures accounts were speculative. Price changes, said Mehl, had been aggravated by many "weakly financed" traders. "Shorts are quickly forced to cover," while "longs are washed out by temporary reactions...
Total British exports were up 20% over the 1938 average. Steel production, at an annual rate of 14,174,000 tons, was higher than in any previous November on record. A Nottinghamshire shawl-making firm using century-old handlooms had increased its export production by 150%. "We just decided to work longer hours to make more shawls," explained 76-year-old ex-Miner Johnny Lester. And thanks to the efforts of others like Johnny, national production of cotton and rayon yarns has risen higher (17,940,000 pounds in one week) than at any time since...
...significant as the orderly manner of his election. The government of Provisional President Romulo Betancourt, confident of Acción Democrática,'s strength, had taken pains to make the voting fair, and even the opposition was hard put to find grounds for charging fraud. Previous presidents had been chosen by Congress. Gallegos was elected by direct popular ballot, and every Venezuelan over 18 had the right to vote...