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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...guessed right only ,six times. Their failure was even more impressive when the short interest was measured in relation to the total volume of trading. In this ratio there were two previous peaks-in 1938 and 1948-as high as last week's. The 1938 bearish peak came just before the market shot up 52 points; the 1948 peak came during a 30-point rise. This moved Wall Street's Francis I. du Pont & Co. to observe last week that the new bearish peak merely means that "Johnny Come Lately is on the bear side...
...lower. Most of the major tiremakers had introduced low-priced tires and even some automakers were joining the parade: some "extras" became standard equipment. This week General Motors Corp. cut its auto prices from $10 to $40 as G.M. wages (tied to the cost-of-living index) came down 1? an hour...
British exhibitors shrewdly let the critics see both versions. Last week the censored version opened at London's Odeon and broke all attendance records. From the critics it drew more compliments than quibbles. Sample from the Daily Express: ". . . The finest thing Hollywood has ever done . . . When the end came . . . I was crying." But The Snake Pit's finest tribute came in a censor-dictated line in the British foreword: "Remember-all the characters you see on the screen are played by actors and actresses...
When the Spanish Civil War came, Foote went to Spain and fought with the 6th International Brigade. Perhaps it was his near-genius for inconspicuousness that made Foote just the man for the Russians. When British Communists recommended him for a dangerous "assignment" on the Continent, he jumped at the chance, entered the Red army intelligence six months before the fall of Madrid. He became a cog in an espionage network that Fed information directly into Red army headquarters in Moscow. Except for an interval in a Swiss jail, he worked for the Russians until 1947. But long before that...
Foote's actual career as a spy began in Switzerland in October 1938. On his first assignment, he was sent to Munich where he set himself up as an amiable tourist of independent means; his pay and expense money came to $300 (U.S.) a month. This mission consisted largely in lunching at Hitler's favorite restaurant and reporting on the Fuhrer's habits...