Word: droppings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stockmarket, as the sum total of many bets on the future, almost always anticipates (and frequently overanticipates) good or bad news. Last week, when Italy finally threw in the towel, the market took the good news in traditional style: it went down. But the drop, two-thirds of a point on the Dow-Jones industrial average, was picayune compared to the threeday, 6½-point nose dive that followed the fall of Mussolini last July, and was more than made up in the next day's trading...
...Jazzmen are featuring a group of New York swing festers, namely Frankie Newton, Al Morgan, Arthur Karle, and Pinky Black at their third concert, Saturday. The bang-up affair is being held in the Lowell House Dining Hall, and as usual, any college musicians who care to play may drop around between 2 and 5 o'clock and lend their talents...
...declaring a city open means that it is not to be defended, surely we can put this matter to the test. . . . Why not drop a few parachutists on Rome and seize the city? If these men were attacked, obviously the city would not be an open city, but if they were not attacked, I should imagine it would be very useful for us to be in possession of Rome...
Many a U.S. shipper these days is like a captain nervously watching his barometer drop to hurricane level. Shippers know that at war's end the U.S. may have quadrupled its prewar fleet to a thumping 50,000,000 deadweight tons, most of it Government-owned, enough to founder private shippers if unwisely used. What will happen to this vast tonnage...
...deadline came last week, Dr. Pezet received a phone call from his chauffeur. The plot had leaked. Police came to take him away. Said he calmly: his revolt was not against the constituted authority, since that authority was himself. Pudgy, earnest José Pezet declared that not a drop of blood would have been spilled. He had even provided a nurse to accompany the conspirators to the Presidential Palace, lest Señora de la Guardia faint...