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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reinforcements reached Burma last week. They were Chinese reinforcements: thousands of war-hardened soldiers, whose officers generally scorned the markings of rank, shared their men's Spartan fare and, in their tattered uniforms, looked like the lowest private. Many of the soldiers bore U.S. weapons. Quickly, with the British and Indian troops who had retired from Rangoon, they formed a new defense line across central Burma...
...stock market, sagging since the first of the year, bumped to a seven-year bottom last week. The venerable Dow-Jones industrial stock average hit 98.3, 14% under 1942's best, lowest since...
Still another great yeast cake of dissension were India's 60,000,000 Untouchables (peoples of the lowest caste), whose chief political spokesman was Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar. He distrusted Congress ambitions, since they would lead to Hindu majority Governments which might sustain caste discrimination...
Faced with profit and dividend cuts like these, many investors dumped stocks overboard as soon as they read Morgenthau's tax bill. Result: the Dow-Jones industrial average plopped 4½ points to 102.1, lowest since March 1938; utility shares hit 12, lowest ever and only one-twelfth of 1929-5 145 peak. Railroad shares fell over a point, despite the 3-to-6% freight-rate increase they had been allowed on Monday (but rail stocks, at 26.3, were still 2 points above last year's low). New York Stock Exchange seats dropped too-one sold...
With our armed forces at one of the lowest ebbs of the war, this is probably the most unpopular time a post-war "planner" could pick to air his findings. But if anyone thinks that we will be able to take those problems in our stride when we come to them, he had better take a gander at what is going to happen to the so-called "industry of the future," when the smoke clears away...