Word: overnights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because ships cannot be built overnight, war has immensely increased the value of every old ship in existence. The fifth month of World War II found charter rates up from their pre-war price of $3 or $4 a ton per month to $25. Freight rates had zoomed as high as 400% to war-zone ports. Of 86 U. S. ships withdrawn from European trade by the Neutrality Act, all but a handful had been re-employed on other trade routes or chartered. The Maritime Commission had approved the sale or change of registry of over 70 vessels, announced that...
Germany became a debtor's paradise, a creditor's hell. Real-estate owners, big landlords, industrialists paid off loans and mortgages for a song; small savers, insurance holders, widows & orphans, whose inheritances had been invested in "safe" State bonds, were wiped out overnight...
...such attention came Dr. Rosenberg's way. Since last August, when overnight the Germans and Russians became friends, the Nazis have found it convenient to forget their embarrassing anti-Bolshevist philosopher. Last week, his birthday was not noticed publicly, he was left to philosophize alone and silently on theory v. practice in international politics...
...evening last August, just before Hitler's armies marched into Poland, three backers agreed to put up the $1,500,000. Then Hitler marched into Poland and the stockmarket shot skyward. Overnight two of Editor Ingersoll's angels backed out, decided that the place for their money was in the market. Ingersoll swallowed his disappointment and set out to find new backers...
...freeing the tracks for them and sending them as much as 500 miles in a night. During 1939: Union Pacific began to run one from Portland, Ore. to Boise, Idaho, another from Los Angeles to Salt Lake City, another from Denver to Kansas City. Southern Pacific started trains running overnight to Yuma and Phoenix, Ariz, from Los Angeles, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe scheduled redball freights from Chicago to Texas in 24 hours, Chicago to Kansas City overnight...