Word: flows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first day of the new currency issue, Shanghai merchants jacked prices up 20%. If they got away with that, other price rises would follow and the new currency might become as worthless as the old. Best sign that that would not happen was a flow of gold bars into the government's coffers as hoarders gave them up to purchase the new money...
When an object is moving through air at less than Mach I, compression waves speed out ahead of it. They "warn" the air molecules that a moving body is coming, so the molecules have time to rearrange themselves to flow evenly around it. But above Mach I, the moving body (like the raiding Mongols of the Middle Ages) out-speeds the news of its coming. The air molecules, taken by surprise, are pushed aside sharply...
...Klux Klan gathered in a field near Stone Mountain, Ga. for the largest Klan ceremony since 1924 (see cut). They fired up oil buckets hung on a cross of iron pipe, initiated 700 new members, and cheered a prediction by Grand Dragon Samuel Green that "blood would flow in the streets" if civil rights for Negroes were enforced in the South...
...fight. Arab diehards at first threatened countersanctions against Britain and the U.S. Azzam Pasha, spokesman for the Arab League, snarled: "If you prevent me from getting what I want, naturally I will prevent you from getting what you want." He meant oil. The Arabs could seriously interfere with the flow of 40% of the world's oil lying in areas they inhabit...
...show. As in The Pirate, Miss Garland does a comic tramp dance, with teeth blacked out. She is very cute at this but, after all, she has other talents; it will be a pity if she gets typed as a hobo. Now & then the picture has real gaiety and flow. More often, it just ambles along. Considering its assets, it is by no means as good as it ought to be. But, considering the hot weather, you could do a lot worse...