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Murrow grew 20 Ib. leaner before the last Dornier droned home from the great raids on London. His offices were hit twice. He broadcast in a studio littered with sleeping people on mattresses ("Tis new experience," he cabled, "although probably not so new people sleeping by loudspeakers...
...right. She was a 1,300-Ib. Holstein, a runaway from a herd of 28 unloaded that day from Wisconsin. Heading back toward the farm, she had wandered along a creek bed which leads into the labyrinth of sewers under the city...
...tons of Treasury bullion might well be largely drawn into wire and installed in new defense plants this winter to save some 75,000 tons of copper. So suggested Robert E. McConnell at a convention of chemical engineers. Copper is priced at 12? a lb., silver around $10 a Ib. depending on when it was bought; but defense plants are well guarded and their wires full of deadly high voltages 24 hours a day. After the war the silver can be re claimed, restored to precious uselessness...
...what price all these post-war markets would add up to 1,100,000,000 Ib. a year, not even Alcoa knew last week...
Officially, Henderson had not abandoned his ceiling on cotton grey goods; he had merely unhitched it and tied it to raw cotton prices. For every .44? a Ib. change in cotton prices (up or down from 15.99?) the price of cloth can change ½? a Ib. (starting at 43? for Class A print cloths...