Word: hopelessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Outside of the good overall earnings, there were few surprises and little to cheer about. Biggest surprise: a good many utilities, whose outlook for increased earnings was supposedly hopeless-their gross business is stable, their costs, on the rise-managed to squeak out a little more net income. Most notable were Wendell Willkie's ex-company. Commonwealth & Southern, with a six months' net of $7,331,000, its best showing in more than ten years; and New York's huge, over-bonded Consolidated Edison, whose $5,869,000 net for the second quarter was almost 25% above...
Kesselring had more vital matters to concern him. He could not depend upon the Italians at home or those in the field under General Alfredo Guzzoni, commander in Sicily. On occasion the Italians fought fiercely, gave up only when further combat was hopeless. But when they surrendered, they surrendered in crowds. As in North Africa, Italian soldiers and officers hated the Germans. Soldiers complained that the Germans took all the food; Italian airmen, that the Germans took the good planes and hangars...
...Whenever one was wounded he would grab a grenade and blow himself up. There were about 200 of them up here and the Americans killed around 130 in that first charge. The other 70 came back Sunday morning and we were ready for them. They saw it was hopeless and began holding grenades against their stomachs and blowing their guts out. In all we lost about...
...right flank broke loose all along the front. From all sides the murderous rebels were leading their freebooters into the bayonet attack. Among them we could see many women with rifles in their hands. . . . We were strained to the utmost. Our nerves were breaking ... the situation was critical, hopeless . . . then came the Stukas bringing ammunition, but the enemy is far superior, many times superior. In the end it is no longer possible to prevent them from capturing all our positions in the southern part of the town. . . . They are shelling the fortress which is still in Italian hands...
Legislative adjournment was set for midnight April 20. Came midnight and an apparently hopeless deadlock over taxes; the clocks were stopped. At 6 a.m. the Governor left for a cat nap at his home in South St. Paul. He was back in his office at 10; the Legislature was still wrangling...