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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Down from the Orbit. They will have to work on a lot more components too, for satellites are still a post-Buck Rogerish shot toward the future. Though bristling with difficulties, they are theoretically feasible enough to merit serious investigation. If they ever do carry U.S. colors into space, they would have their military uses. Even an uninhabited satellite could serve as an observation post. While orbiting over enemy territory, it might watch behind the lines with telescopes and report its observations by television...
...Finns as well as Swedes. The results were sensational. Within 10 to 45 minutes, whether they had drunk beer, wine or hard liquor, the guests had splitting headaches and were vomiting. Their blood pressure and pulse rate shot up. It became the worst lost weekend any of them had ever known; twelve landed in a hospital; several almost died...
Miracle of the Wheat. What brought it down chiefly was the greatest crop in U.S. history. In Oklahoma and Kansas, the farmers marveled at the "miracle" wheat crop. The miracle was repeated almost everywhere. The corn crop, which had been poor in 1947, was the biggest ever. All told, the U.S. harvest was 11% bigger than ever before...
...died. On the election of President Truman the market fell 10.82 points in a week, the worst break since the spring of 1940. At year's end the averages were at 177.30, down slightly from the year's start, and Wall Streeters were more confused than ever on whether the market was bound up or down...
Enter: Bull. The stock market paid little heed to the fat profits or to any of the other household gods that traders once swore by. Ever since it had collapsed in fear of a recession in 1946, the market had been seesawing, trying to make up its mind whether the boom had really come to stay. Looking at some of the props under the boom-plant expansion, ECA and rearmament orders-investors celebrated the tax cut by finally placing their bets...