Word: due
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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White Death. Sleep leaned on his eyelids, pressed down on his brain like a weight. Flying southeastward over the Canadian Rockies, he fell asleep. When he awoke an hour and 40 minutes later, he was flying almost due north. All around him, white-fanged peaks glinted in the moonlight. "I looked up and I was headed for a huge cloud. No, I thought, that's not a cloud." It was the top of Mount Logan, 19,850 feet high. "I just pulled back on the wheel and spiraled right up ... before I straightened out for home...
...baseball's No. 1 cap-straightener and head-rubber at the plate, Harry is known as "Harry the Hat" (not to be confused with the Cards' "Harry the Cat" Brecheen). He thinks his hitting this year is due partly to being an everyday player, partly to some advice about his batting stance from brother Dixie (when they meet around the circuit, they usually discuss their Alabama hardware business). One of Harry's neatest tricks this year has been hitting a solid .438 in four games against Cincinnati's sensational, 16-straight Pitcher Ewell Blackwell. Says Harry...
...proprietors (stockholders) heard the 30th governor, Sir Patrick Ashley Cooper, report: "The fall in net profits (from ?1,717,397, to ?1,068,803) is largely due to the sharp fall in inventory prices in the fur trade. . . . The directors anticipate . . . some further downward adjustment. . . ." But Sir Patrick was confident. The company, he said, was well on the way to re-establishing London's eminence in the world's fur markets; the future looked bright...
...most dangerous diseases of 20th Century civilization, and one of the least understood. They may have to modify the latter belief, for a group of British scientists have turned up what looks like a solid clue to the disease. Their discovery: high blood pressure seems to be due to a "short-circuiting" of blood circulation in the kidneys, caused by too much nervous excitement...
...despite a record peacetime profit of $81,804,815 in the second quarter v. $65,818,019 in the first quarter. G.M.'s explanation: since November 1946, steel and almost all other materials have gone up in price along with wages. Its huge profit, said G.M., was due to low-cost materials in inventories. Now that they were used up and it had to buy at present prices, it contended, its costs had risen sharply, not only for steel but for other and more costly items that go into the automobile assembly line...