Word: highly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wizard. Appling has been celebrating his 40th birthday for several years now. The evidence indicates that he was born in High Point, N.C., some 42 or 43 years ago, moved with his family to Atlanta, played shortstop at Fulton High and at Oglethorpe University (where he also played football). He left Oglethorpe after two years to play baseball with the Atlanta Crackers, and the White Sox snapped him up during his first season...
...Czechoslovakia the government produced a package of priestly "high treason." The Rev. Alois Fajstl, the state announced, had been sentenced to eight years' imprisonment plus confiscation of his property and loss of civil rights for ten years. The charge: when called to give the last rites of the church to a woman apparently dying of pneumonia, Father Fajstl first asked if she were a Communist, then withheld the sacrament until she had sent her son to party headquarters to turn in her membership card. Instead of dying, the government said, the woman recovered and denounced the priest for thus...
...speculative look at the slump that had finally arrived, and decided it was not living up to their gloomy expectations. Result: the market's seventh bullish week in the last eight. The Dow-Jones industrial average rose 3.15 points to 179.07, only a shade below its 1949 high...
Still, the creeping recession had not yet crept all over. Detroit was riding high, with the auto industry driving for its biggest postwar year. Last week Chrysler Corp. came up with record first-half earnings of $6.12 a share...
...remedy was just the opposite. The big trouble now, said Tom McCabe, was that there was a great shortage of risk capital, although "such risk taking has long been an American tradition." Businessmen either did not have the cash or found investment too risky in the face of high taxes. The thing to do, he said, was to ease taxes on business and businessmen. McCabe recommended that Congress study the entire tax structure, and consider such changes...