Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of the long-range projectiles now falling on "Southern England" are V-2 rocket bombs, even more inaccurate than the V-1 jet bombs. But they fall on a tightly settled island, and not all of them drop in open fields. In January they killed an average of 19 people a day; the month's casualty totals were nearly twice those of December. Inevitably, of the 2,214 killed or injured, more than two-thirds were women & children. The Berlin radio smacked its lips and boasted: "With another month of rockets nothing will be left of London...
...Army's appeal for needed inventions (TiME, Sept. 6, 1943), the Navy last week authorized the National Inventors Council to publish a list of 25 naval needs. Some of them: ¶A shockproof, non-parachute aerial delivery container, cheap enough to be thrown away after one drop. A light to mark beaches, which will work on light weight rechargeable batteries, be visible from 5,000 yards at sea. ¶ A method of welding light-gauge aluminum, "of particular importance since aluminum lifeboats and rafts are currently of riveted construction due to lack of a satisfactory method of welding...
...normal times, a sizable drop in gross meant a sizable drop in net. This is no longer true. Example: Hercules Powder Co. had its volume trimmed by "shifts in war production" so that its gross profit was cut by $7,910,000. But its tax bill dropped also, some $6,050,000. Thus, net profits were down only...
...recommending registration of agreements, the Council would not clip any anti-trust laws. U.S. companies could still be prosecuted if they failed to drop agreements which the State Department frowned on. And the State Department could revoke its approval of an agreement, any time it wanted. But U.S. corporations and businessmen would no longer be harried by antitrust laws, as they sometimes are now: they could not be indicted, under any "new" interpretation of the antitrust laws, for something they thought was perfectly legal at the time they...
...week started a new service for customers - a cheaper, easier way of mailing money. For amounts of $10 or less, post-office patrons may now buy a simplified postal money order in dollar denominations, paste on stamps for odd cents. Purchasers write in the name of the creditor and drop the order in the mail. Gone is the bother of writing out applications, waiting for the clerk to labor over the old form. Flat-rate cost...