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...gong rang, signaling, the start of trading in the Chicago Board of Trade. Half an hour later, the pits were a pandemonium of roaring voices and flapping arms. Selling orders had flooded the exchange. At 10:15, traders yelled "Basement!" which meant that May corn had fallen 8?, the legal limit for one day. Within the next few minutes, May oats had dropped their limit of 6?, May wheat its 10? limit. It was the first day of a break in commodity prices which stirred the market as nothing had in two whooping years. The New York Stock Exchange slumped...
Back in Tokyo again, the Akai family built a tidy shack on the ruins of their old home. While they huddled over a charcoal fire, as the midnight gong beat out the old year, Akai San heard a scratching at the door. Outside, a shabby dog whined and howled. "Go away, mutt!" shouted Akai, but the dog waved his tail and, crawling on his belly, came even closer. Suddenly recognition came. "It's Fifty Bells!" shouted Akai, hugging the dog, while the family gathered in wonder...
...good wall, recalled the Rev. Herbert Loddigs, of St. Albans, L.I., who worked in the Evangelical Lutheran mission there until a month ago. "The people had a lot of confidence in their wall." A Communist attack was not seriously expected. But two nights before Christmas the city gong sounded a loud warning...
...much water, he cautioned. No more lethargic lectures, and endless doodling until the bell rang. Soon the bells would be ringing all the time, and breakfast would move up into afternoon, and weekends would mushroom into whole weeks. Tow whole weeks, in fact. He wondered why he wasn't gong skiing all two weeks, and as he herringbone up the library steps, the reason dawned. Christmas. Sure enough...
...pulpit" stood Quotation Recorder Bill Poulden watching the clock. At 9:30, as the grain pits were opening in Chicago and Minneapolis, Poulden rang the gong and the pit burst into a bedlam of shouting and arm-waving...