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...last in a position to attack there were only seven left, four in front and three behind. . . . We had a real field day making attack after attack-a few Me. 1095 turned up but did not hinder us. The Ju. 88s went down all over the place. The scrap started at 13,000 ft. and the bombers just pushed their throttles wide open and screamed downhill in a vain attempt to get away. We bagged the lot, the last three coming down in the sea. My ammunition ran out at about 2,000 ft. so I was unable to administer...
Without beating around the bush, the board asked Congress to take back the power to devalue the dollar that it had given to Franklin Roosevelt, to scrap the Administration's authority (never used) to issue $3,000,000,000 worth of new currency backed by nothing but Government credit, to repeal the Treasury's right to issue $1.29 worth of silver coins for each ounce of foreign silver it buys (current price: 35? an ounce). The board argued that these three measures, adopted during Depression I to combat deflation, are no longer needed. What is needed, thanks...
...significance of this fact was that two export items were responsible for some 50% of the increase:† 1) refined and scrap copper (up almost 180% to 29,000 tons); 2) metal-working machinery (up 109% to $1,410,000; $21,166,000 for ten months...
Burnham also finished his scrap off in about seven minutes. He has been doing a very good job substituting for Jim Redman in the 121 pound slot, garnering five points in both of the first two matches. Redman, however, will probably be able to return to his usual position after mid-years...
...building program in 1938. When war began, the U. S. merchant marine consisted of 2,345 ocean-going vessels of 8,909,892 gross tons and was largely obsolescent. Over 7% of these old ships, which practically had been written off the books and would have been sold for scrap in a few years, now have been sold to England or Canada. At about $50 a ton, owners have received some $31 million-enough for down payments on many a modern freighter just off the ways. Latest shipping firm to take advantage of the favorable trade-in allowance...