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...like every one else at TIME he had known for weeks just what his job would be at H-hour, and the bells on the A.P. printer had hardly stopped ringing before he put in the first telephone call that started editors, writers and researchers on their D-day assignments...
...Army can determine, the first use of D for Day, H for Hour was in Field Order No. 8, of the First Army, A.E.F., issued on Sept. 7, 1918, which read: "The First Army will attack at H-Hour on D-Day with the object of forcing the evacuation of the St. Mihiel salient...
...early-morning Washington, a cab driver, parked near the White House, said: "It may be D-day but it looks just like any other morning to me." Two days earlier the U.S. had received a false invasion flash from the Associated Press's London office, sent by an inexperienced girl teletype operator. Now, in Redding, Calif., a policeman echoed the sentiments of many citizens when he said: "That girl wasn't far off, was she?" Awakened by a New York Post reporter at her West Point hotel, Mrs. Dwight Eisenhower exclaimed : "The invasion? What about the invasion...
...D-day minus one, a happy Wall Streeter cried: "The market has recovered from the invasion jitters." Next day came the invasion, and all market-guessing was 100% off. No one could tell how the market would eventually settle. But in the first few hours the market was rising, and many a stock hit new highs for the year...
There had been plenty of reason for optimism. Since March, the New York Stock Exchange has quivered on every D-day rumor. But last week, taking its courage firmly in hand, the Exchange: 1) had its busiest day of the year, turning over 1,193,080 shares; 2) saw the Dow-Jones industrial average rise to 142.24, a new peak...