Word: flues
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ezion-geber's site shows Solomon at his wisest. He had it put at the one place where strong, steady winds from the north could fan the flames in its furnaces (whose flue-holes and air-channels utilized the principle of the blast furnace nearly 3,000 years before Bessemer), blow the smoke and fumes...
Last week the market went vertical with a bang down. Its forecast changed from ''the same" to "civilization is going up the flue with The Netherlands and Belgium." To the average U. S. market fan, who starts and stops major swings, this translated itself into an imperative desire for cash. The scramble to liquidate stocks resulted in the sale of 17,000,000 shares last week, 11,500,000 more than War ll's 36 weeks' average. Prices dropped from 144.85 to 128.27 in the first two days...