Word: ago
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...couldn't get thread or needles from the Western sectors, his delivery boys were detained for days at a time by Russian patrols. Last week, because he was "politically unreliable," Fritz's shop was confiscated. Oddly, it was confiscated by the same German official who ten years ago seized his furniture because he was a Jew. Said Fritz: "Berlin is dead...
...Russians, too, probably have supersonic airplanes. According to the London Daily Mail last week, the U.S.S.R. has developed a model with "a top speed approaching 760 m.p.h." The Daily Mail attributed Russian progress to 50 Rolls-Royce Nene jet engines which Britain sold them about a year ago...
...risen 19% above the 1947 period. And there was plenty of buying power: in April, personal incomes had gone up $1.4 billion, reaching an annual rate of $209 billion. In some lines which had felt a sag in sales, strange and wonderful things were happening. A few weeks ago, for example, some home appliances were in the doldrums. But when the Iron Age set out to probe the slump last week, it was flabbergasted: demand had picked up so much that manufacturers were again talking up allocations to their dealers...
Directors George Whitney and Harry Davison of J. P. Morgan & Co. also thought they could skip the "routine meeting." Though Morgan interests had helped put Avery in as Ward's chairman 17 years ago, Whitney and Davison are now reportedly pro-Norton. When the meeting was finally held, it turned out to be anything but routine-and still another Norton man, Director Lawrence Appley, was among those missing...
Only a month ago, the Department...