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...Colorado Rockies. All U.S. weathermen could say was: "If there is any good explanation for such weather at this time of the year, we'd like to have it." The ancients would not have been at such a loss. They would probably have seen in it an omen of world-shaking events...
...luck struck early. On the very first day, Napoleon fell off his horse-a bad omen. The horses got colic from eating green crops, and in ten days one third of the cavalry was lost. By the time they reached Vilna, 50.000 men were lost from sickness alone. The Russians fought sharp rearguard actions almost to Moscow, stood at Borodino, killed 25,000 Frenchmen. Having entered most of the first cities of Europe except Moscow, the soldiers were eager to sweep into Moscow. But the Russians burned the town as they entered...
TURKEY As the late afternoon sun fell gleaming on the domes and minarets of Istanbul one day this week, a bird of ill omen winged in from the west. It hovered above the city for a moment, then settled down at the airport. From the plane stepped dapper old Franz von Papen, German Ambassador to Turkey and the man whom Adolf Hitler expects to open for him the door to the rich Middle East, Germany's dreamland for half a century...
Still ahead lay other potential shortages -steel, copper, brass, power, freight-car manufacturing, foundries, shipping. As an omen of the shipping uncertainty, the price of imports-cocoa, rubber, silk-rose last week. Other commodities (flour, cotton goods, sugar) did the same. Meanwhile wages also nudged the trend. The woolen-textile industry upped wages 10%, and steelworkers met a U. S. Steel offer of 2½?-an-hour increase by a demand for 10?. By this week it was clear that, even if major strikes are averted, the U. S. economy was turning into a shortage economy. Higher inventories, higher prices...
...guns, was turned to advantage. They dragged their light mountain pieces over rough trails and got into position where they could drop shells on Italians who could not see them. The effectiveness of these tactics was immense. Proud of their artillery, the Greeks thought it was an immense good omen when Përmet fell on the feast day of Saint Barbara, patroness of artillerymen...