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...rare American who has not been hurt???directly or indirectly?by the market's long fall. In a sense the decline has hit harder than that of the Great Depression: only about 1,500,000 Americans owned shares then, compared with 31 million now. All together, 100 million Americans have some stake in the market through their holdings in pension funds, profit-sharing funds, variable annuities and endowment trusts. Even people who do not have such interests have been damaged. The stock drop has affected the psychological climate ?and thus the spending plans?of all kinds of businesses. Moreover...
...irony. The original victim of that mistaken-identity crisis was a B-25 bombardier named Joseph Heller during a World War II raid over Avignon. He was a dozen feet from the pilot; yet they were separated by layers of chaos and terror. It was not Heller who was hurt???it was his gunner who was bleeding copiously into his flight suit. It was Heller's 37th mission. From that instant of agony he grew petrified of flight. When his war ended, he took a ship home; it was some 15 years later before the flyer entered another plane...
...just 26, but I'm an old woman in disguise?26 goin' on 65," she says only half jokingly. "Trying to grow up is hurting, you know. You make mistakes. You try to learn from them, and when you don't it hurts even more. And I've been hurt???hurt...
...another day's work. The Pittsburgh Coal Co.'s strong-arm men* jostled the picketers, bade them begone. A striker fired a shotgun. Two strong-armers roared with pain. The crowd dissolved, growling with satisfaction. The week before it had been a striker's woman who was hurt???trampled by a police horse. . . . Next time the California picketers assembled they were dispersed by tear...
...wholesome, upright, law-abiding students of Carnegie Institute of Technology (Pittsburgh) were hurt???deeply and irreparably injured. Their beloved and respected head, Dr. Samuel Harden Church, in testifying against prohibition before the Senate Judiciary Committee last fortnight (TIME, April 26, NATIONAL AFFAIRS), had implied that drunkenness and other evils existed among students universally and had failed to exclude his own Carnegie Tech from the condemnation...
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