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...continued on its course last week-the public paid more & more money for what it got. And lots of people, in buying stocks, were betting that inflation cannot be checked, that prices will keep on going up. On the New York Stock Exchange, the Dow-Jones industrial average crept upward to 143.68, highest since May 1940; the utilities hit a new high of 21.35; railroads were close to their May peak. Last month was the busiest June in five years. Ahead were July and August, which have shown rising markets two years out of three for 50-odd years...
Companionship of Death. In a burned tent about two miles from Massacre, I found eight grotesque little Japanese bodies, clothes burned off, arms reaching outward or upward-where there were arms. Two bodies were burned to crisps, one atop the other, fused into one charred hump...
That market is now hotter than a jump session with Duke Ellington. The new piano supply is close to exhaustion; prices of used instruments have soared like an upward series of arpeggios...
...permanent effect, it was largely from one of the least noticed phases of the air offensive-the attacks by fighters and bombers on Axis rail equipment. Short of locomotives and freight cars when the war started, now needing them as never before the Germans by early 1943 were losing upward of 150 railway engines and many more freight cars each month...
...military school and, before he was 19, fought with Pancho Villa. Mustered out, he went to Mexico City and began his musical career as a whorehouse pianist. Today many of his songs reveal an intimate knowledge of bordello sentiment. Another permanent acquisition was a deep knife gash running upward from the left corner of his mouth. After witnessing a shooting affair which left one woman dead and several wounded, Lara decided to move up the social scale...