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...around the china shop like a bull, crashing through prices, breaking up ceilings and walls, unless the Government finds a way to ring its nose. And to complicate matters a large part of this money will be in the hands of wage earners while the proposed taxes will fall heaviest on salaried people and investors...
Coach Floyd Stahl took with him 15 players, including four pitchers, to meet the heaviest opposition the team has run into yet. In addition to the usual starting line-up, making the tour are hurlers Lou Clay, Mort Waldstein, Joe Phelan and Warren Berg; Sophomore utilitymen Brooks Heath and Thayer Drake; and catcher Gerard Callanan...
...Sicily, 225 miles north of Tripoli, the spongy little island of Malta was definitely Britain's. Malta is the most heavily and frequently bombed stronghold of World War II-and therefore in the history of the world-and from the impatient Axis last week it got its heaviest raids...
...harbor at Valletta. The dockyard repairs surface ships up to cruiser size. Bombers and fighters come out of hiding in hangars dug deep in the limestone and take off from rocky fields in the hills. The British believe that Malta's concentration of anti-aircraft guns is the heaviest in the world, not even excepting Moscow...
...loading a ship, as in packing a trunk, the heaviest cargo is usually put in the bottom. But wartime cargoes are loaded not by common sense but by code. Washington supplies a code breakdown with instructions on where to stow each item. If orders put Item XA in the bottom hold, there Item XA must go, whether it turns out on arrival to be eggs, airplanes or cigarets...