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...boom was on. Day after day on the New York Stock Exchange last week, stocks surged upward in a roaring, old-fashioned bull market. Brokers sweated ecstatically through two 2,000,000-share days and even one 2,517,340-share day, the busiest in over a year. Typical of the furious buying & selling: 1,111,570 shares changed hands in two hours, and twice during the week the tickers lagged. Up went the Dow-Jones industrial averages to 147.28, highest since May 10, 1940, when the Nazi strike into the Lowlands started the market on a long slide down...
...Climb Upward. He was definitely one of the Army's coming men; there is no reason to believe that he was particularly startled by any of the rapid promotions that in 35 months boosted him from lieutenant colonel to full general...
During maneuvers at Fort Benning, Ga. a paratrooper leaped from a plane, cracked his chute squarely in the middle of an upward rising column of air. He hung there, while his comrades swung to the ground...
High on a ladder in the British Admiralty's war room stood a WREN (British WAVE), sticking pins in a map which marked the progress of a North Atlantic convoy. A crusty British sea lord stalked in, glanced upward at the map. Said he: "Captain, that WREN will either have to wear pants or we will have to move the convoy to the South Atlantic...
...farmers have forgotten their mad scramble for more land at any price during World War I, followed by the collapse of the farm boom in 1922. When the topheavy mortgage structure crashed during the Depression, 85,000 farmers were wiped out by foreclosure. Now land values are creeping upward again as farm income soars to an alltime high. But the farmers will be on solid postwar ground if they keep the mortgages curve heading downward. This is good news for everybody, even country bankers...