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Author Hughes protests that In Hazard is not really a book about a storm, but about fear. That he conveys plenty of fear, tense readers will admit. But what will stick in most minds are the sharp descriptive passages-of a momentary lull when sea birds descend on the decks like mosquitoes, their only sound the crunching they make as they are crushed underfoot; of a scene, illuminated by lightning, when the crew looks out on a mountainside of water crawling with sharks...
...spread buffet lunch, there was food for every thought in last week's business figures. The stockmarket slipped badly one day, steadied the next, ended about on the same level (140.24 on the Dow-Jones industrial averages) it had maintained for two weeks. Some thought this was a lull before a reaction, others declared it a pause while business caught up. Meanwhile, steel production rose again, reaching 39.8% of capacity, an eleven-point rise since prices were cut June 24. Lumber production and wholesale food prices were also up. Freight loadings were off more than seasonally, as was power...
Meanwhile, in Barcelona, Author-Correspondent Vincent Sheean took advantage of the lull to get off a few fresh observations on the 22-month-old war. Most striking thing about the war to Sheean, who reached Spain only two months ago, is its incongruous combination of ultra-modern and primitive methods. The ultramodern: "Newfangled bombs, thermite, delayed-action fuses and the like, which are capable of greater destruction than any bombs hitherto used in war." The primitive: "There are no proper trenches anywhere [with the exception of those outside Madrid]. The ditches and ravines in these dusty clay hills take...
...favorite economic reading of most U. S. tycoons, this was all so much balderdash. Remarking on the railroad crisis, stagnation of new building, lack of substantial upturn in automobile production, fall in security prices, increase in unemployment and lack of a spring upturn. Colonel Ayres decided that the present lull is only the end of the first stage of a major depression. Gloomed he: "The physical volume of industrial production appears to have dropped to more than 40% below the computed normal level in March. . . . There has been only one year in all our history when production averaged more than...
Lampposts were blown down, trees uprooted and their greenery set afire, buildings collapsed and streetcars & their occupants were blown to bits. Correspondent Matthews set about getting something to eat during a lull between raids, continued to observe morale in the restaurant. "I did not find it amusing," he cabled afterward, ''to see a great hulking fellow who was eating with his girl jump up and beat her to the kitchen by three strides as the next raid began...