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President Schram's warning closed the barn door a little late: rumors had already touched off a buying spree in low-priced auto shares. Through the grapevine from Detroit poured an endless cackle of tips and gossip as the auto industry jockeyed for postwar position. Biggest whoppers from the gossip mill last week concerned the future of the four Fisher brothers (TIME, Aug. 14). The dope had it that the Fishers were going to: 1) buy aging Henry Ford's titanic empire; or 2) buy control of three or four smaller companies and merge these into one automaker...
Hardly a street car or subway train left the barn. Flying squads in automobiles chased after the few that were already in operation. By noon every one of the city's 1,900 street cars, 632 buses and 541 subway and elevated cars were idle...
Barring disaster, his 42 acres of tall tasseling corn will be worth at least $2,500 in October. There is hay in the barn, and 46 hogs and eight milk cows. And Carolyne has a steady income from her flock of 140 laying hens, 200 pullets and 100 cockerels...
This fall the house and barn will be wired for electricity. Then the Walls will get rid of the smelly kerosene lamps, and out of her egg money Carolyne will buy an electric refrigerator-if she can find one. Joe might put a small radio in the barn so that he can hear music and news programs while he milks. Eventually the Walls will buy an electric washing machine, and a tractor to spell the mules...
Morning found us at divisional headquarters waiting to move up. But the attack was bogging down. I trudged over, to the hospital to see the wounded. Casualties had been heavy and hospital orderlies were working fitfully among the bloody, uncomplaining bodies. The smell of the old barn and the fetid, heavy odor of sickness was crushing. I asked the director where he got his medical training. He said, "I am self-taught. I joined the army medical service four years...