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...sleek, twin-boomed Black Widow night fighter, pilot J. W. McGuyrt reached for a new lever in his cluttered cockpit. He looked back at his passenger, and pulled. A telescopic gun tube exploded a 37-mm. charge and sent First Sergeant Lawrence Lambert, still strapped to his seat, whooshing upward out of the plane, 20 feet above the onrushing tail fins. Three seconds later a second explosion in the air snapped Lambert's safety belt and ripped the seat away. A third blast automatically opened his chute. After that, it was just like any of Airman Lambert...
...price balloon had not torn loose from its moorings. But the cable was paying out at a steady clip. The Gallup poll found that 92% of U.S. citizens expected prices to continue upward for the next six months, a rare percentage of agreement on anything...
Though not the best argument for personal improvement, it is fairly cogent that in the final accounting the book will read "destroyed while working upward" instead of simply "decayed...
...General upward pressure beneath the price level has finally become evident in all goods. Basic commodities, always leading the parade have not yet taken the second turn which marks the beginning of the endless circle. Now is the time when waiting out the price tail-chasing will mean security later...
...U.S.S.R. art may not be long but it is extra tough. Last week the Soviet creative artist got marching orders from Kultura i Zhizn (Culture and Life), a new fortnightly which Moscow's Department of Agitation and Propaganda has founded to guide him onward & upward...