Word: lesse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dirt Farther Down. For any businessmen not acutely aware that many prices were still too high, the Federal Reserve Board had some enlightenment. In a survey made early this year, FRB reported that consumers had almost as much cash as the year before, but were less ready to spend it unless prices went down. Consumers were in the market for up to 5,000,000 new cars, about 1,500,000 television sets and a million new homes. There was "strong underlying consumer demand," said FRB, "if goods were available at prices and qualities considered attractive." So far the price...
...Bismarck Episode is a retired British naval officer's remarkably lucid account of the pursuit, cornering and sinking of the pride of Hitler's navy. An author of less background might have pulled out all the stops and wallowed happily but confusingly in the story's drama. Author Grenfell,* veteran of 30 years' service, including the Jutland and Dardanelles actions in World War I, sticks sternly to facts and understatement...
...over the side, but her flag still flew; she would not sink and would not surrender. Then, at 10:36, from only 2,500 yards, the cruiser Dorsetshire hit her with a last torpedo. Her colors still flying, the mighty Bismarck rolled over and went down, a few hours less than six days from the time she had first been spotted...
...result is unspectacular, although followers of the Dabneys will want to read it to find out what happened to the grandchildren and great-grandchildren. It is a more orderly and down-to-earth book than its predecessors, its characters more credible, its melodrama more restrained. But it is oddly less interesting for being more plausible, and less convincing for being closer to a recognizable environment. Part of the difficulty is that the plot seems to have been trimmed down to the proportions of a cinema scenario. Part of it is that the flamboyance and stage effects of the earlier books...
...roads diverged in a wood, and I-I took the one less traveled...