Word: floodings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germans used the flood shrewdly, shifting their forces northward to meet the heavily mounted drive of General Henry D. G. Crerar's First Canadian Army as it swung southward from captured Cleve to chop out a protective flank for a Ruhr-aimed offensive by Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery's big British Second Army...
Prices surged against their controls last week with the force of an angry sea. The miracle was that the dikes checking the flood of inflation held as firm as they did. In some places the controls had already cracked, and prices spilled through...
Stocks & Bonds. In the financial markets the flood tide of rising prices ran full and swift. The bull market was reaffirmed as the Dow-Jones industrial average reached 158.24, highest point since November 1938, while the rail averages were at a new year high, back to August 1937 levels. The Dow-Jones average of 40 bonds soared to 106.1-the highest peak since 1915 when the series was started. War babies and peace stocks equally shared the boom. Surplus money had found another haven, where it made even more surplus...
...With the impending collapse of Germany and her destruction as a dam against Communism, Spain and Portugal, a thousand miles to the west, become the next barriers to the onrushing Red Russian tidal flood...
EARNINGS The Way Down? As the flood of year-end earnings reports tumbled from the ticker last week, the evidence piled up that U.S. industry had passed the war's profit peak...