Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After returning to Suchow, we boarded a Chinese air force C46 on a mission to air-drop ammunition and hospital supplies to General Huang Po-tao. Nienchuang, Huang's headquarters, nestles close to the smashed Lunghai railway. The village has a heart-shaped double wall and a double moat. The southern section of the town was burning and all nearby villages were heaps of wrecked houses.Trenches webbed out from Nienchuang like some scabrous disease infecting the good earth. All around the village, crumpled parachutes from previous drops sprinkled the brown countryside. As the C46 captain dropped...
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...with post-election jitters, kept right on falling last week. In two days, 4,360,000 shares changed hands; prices tumbled to their lowest point in eight months. At week's end the Dow-Jones industrial average had fallen another 4.6 points to 174.32. In the post-election drop of almost 16 points, $6.2 billion in paper values had been drained from shares listed on the New York Stock Exchange. But this week the market perked up, rose two points...
...some Wall Streeters, last week's drop was more portentous than the actual losses. On the way down, the industrial and railroad averages had broken through their low points of Sept. 27, the last big decline before the pre-election rise. Last May, when both the industrials and rails broke through their previous high marks, followers of the famed Dow theory had proclaimed the "confirmation" of a bull market (TIME, June 14). Now that the same averages had broken through their previous bottoms, did this mean that the bull had been displaced by the bear...
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