Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...breakdown of casualties showed that relative to the number of men employed in the three services the Army was the safest place to be: Army: 7,879 killed, 19,610 wounded, 743 missing, 5,482 died of wounds or diseases, 40,450 captured (not including Crete -perhaps 10,000 captured, perhaps 5,000 killed...
...province of Santa Fé, where he was born. Then his father took him out of school, bought textbooks, let Jorge go his own way. Three years ago the boy began to scribble strange, cabalistic signs. Father Santiago Fernández thought he had suffered a nervous breakdown from too much study. But a local doctor told him his son had picked up some elementary chemical formulas, was trying to analyze and combine them...
...Italy. All Rome papers announced that he was seriously ill, that doctors had been summoned to the White House, that the entire nation was disturbed. Finally the Italian papers had the President confined to a casa di salute-roughly, a place where people go to get over a nervous breakdown...
Edmond Taylor, author of The Strategy of Terror (describing the national nervous breakdown with which Hitler undermined France before destroying her) last week undertook to describe how Hitler is trying to do the same thing in America...
Biggest hidden item: taxes. As intended, they siphoned off profits almost as fast as business boosted them. Not all companies report tax reserves by quarters, but the first 90 to volunteer this breakdown earmarked $151,912,000, four times the $41,392,000 tagged in 1940's March quarter. In contrast to the $110,520,000 tax jump, profits of the same companies were up only $28,484,000 or less than 15%. The Government took 43% of pre-tax earnings (1940 figure...