Word: stocking
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...stockmarket plummeted, U. S. business took sharp stock of the fact that spreading war had wiped out at least half of a $161,125,000 yearly market...
...changed when Britain and France massed troops along Belgium's south border to the coast; that Belgian mayors near the German border were instructed long ago to prepare billets for Allied troops; that Allied engineers were allowed in to prepare gun emplacements; that Belgian roads and rolling stock were at the Allies' disposal at a moment's notice...
...Defense Commissar was born in 1895 of peasant stock in Bessarabia (now Rumanian), worked as farm laborer for a Russian noble, in 1915 was drafted into the Imperial Army. Private Semion
...Crosby and a 35? disc, also repressed, at 50? to $1, a great many foreign recordings. Columbia, most of whose twelve-inch symphonic discs remained at $1.50, began improving its product mechanically, lately signed up such topnotchers as the Minneapolis Symphony under Dimitri Mitropoulos, the Chicago Symphony under Frederick Stock, the Cleveland Orchestra under Artur Rodzinski. Likewise U. S. Records (run by Eli Oberstein, onetime Victor executive) produced a collection of classical recordings, not of the best mechanically but attractively priced...
...American, and by adapting our social and economic systems to meet the needs of a free industrial America as they have never yet been met; we can strengthen our defensive arms--developing the navy, the air force, anti aircraft protection, and a reserve of needed minerals and materials through stock piling-- preparing to defend this country and this hemisphere if at any future time that becomes necessary; we can arm in this way, confident that defensive arming involves no such militarization of our civil life as is entailed in preparing for offense, with its huge conscript army and conscript economic...