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Whip-Cracker. Almond (pronounced All-mond) is a whip-cracking officer. He never compromises with discipline, drives himself hard and his subordinates only a shade less hard. To some he seems an insufferable martinet. Those who know him best say his professional manner, at times as tough as armor plate, is only the protective covering for a courtly, convivial, even sentimental off-duty personality...
This average was still a shade below its mid-June-and bull market-high of 228.38. But some stock averages with a wider cross section of the market (e.g., the New York Times index of 50 combined stocks) had already broken through their June peaks and reached the highest levels since 1931. The conviction that victory was closer also brought a shift in trading psychology. The favorites last week were the television, motor and other "peace" shares, hardest hit by scare selling at the outbreak...
...Shun's 30-ft. rooster-tail wake steadily drew away from Horace Dodge's My Sweetie, Jack Schafer's Stick Crust II, and Harold Wilson's Miss Canada IV. Slo-Mo-Shun's speed over the windswept course was 91.127 m.p.h., a shade under the old record, but fast enough. The winning margin: three miles...
...From the last words of Stonewall Jackson: "Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees...
...caught up with demand. Automakers and many another consumer-goods manufacturer were running months behind in their deliveries-thanks partially, in some cases, to jittery new orders resulting from the Korean war. Employment reached 61,482,000 in June, said the Census Bureau, within a shade of the 1948 high, and was still rising. With unemployment close to a bottom of 3,384,000 (v. 8,300,000 in June of 1940), there was no big jobless pool to draw from for new armament orders...