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...stock market, already nervous over the news from Berlin (see INTERNATIONAL), promptly went into a new decline, certain that the new curb would edge interest rates upward and increase the cost of doing business. In two days, the Dow-Jones industrial average fell 2.29 points to 180.61 in the heaviest selling in weeks. But bankers doubted whether FRB's action would tighten credit much. There was too much money in circulation and too many big non-bank lenders, e.g., insurance companies, ready to fork out cash. New York's National City Bank Monthly Letter said that a practical...
...will clasp a man who comes too close and break his body. The blast roaring out the tail will knock a man down at 150 ft. The reaction of the speeding jet of gas pushes against the test stand with a two-ton thrust. If the engine were pointing upward and left unshackled, it would take off like a rocket, each pound of its weight overbalanced by more than two pounds of thrust...
...almost 2 a.m. when, accompanied by Alben Barkley, he made his entrance into the hall. The delegates stood and cheered. Harry Truman laughed with the crowd as a sudden swarm of pigeons flew around him (see below), then adjusted the microphones upward. The photographers howled; the raised microphones obscured their view of Harry. "I am sorry that [they] are in your way," said the President, "but they have to be where they are because I've got to be able to see what I'm doing-as I always am able to see what I am doing...
China stirred fitfully, like a patient in a coma. The fever line of inflation shot upward-on the Shanghai bourse last week it took nearly 4,500,000 Chinese dollars to buy one U.S. dollar. The Chinese themselves were delighted when G.O.P. Nominee Tom Dewey promptly declared (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) that one of his first aims was to get "military advisers . . . material . . . far greater financial assistance" to China. But many feared the patient might be dead by Inauguration...
Getting the information was no airborne picnic. The planes that did the job were tough, night-fighting Black Widows. They "penetrated" 1,600 thunderclouds, often coming out with their noses deep-dented by hail. The worst gust encountered blew at 43 ft. per second (29 m.p.h.) almost directly upward. Said the pilot who flew through it: "The jolt was so severe I thought I had collided with another plane. I was unable to keep my hands on the controls, they banged around so much...