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...thoroughness of Kesselring's Army in Italy. The 1st Imperials have perhaps four .75s on the Ormoc road. Their fire has been woefully ineffective except against an easy point-blank target. . . . You can drive right up to the front without drawing a storm of artillery or getting blown skyhigh by mines...
...parity and hold their cotton off the market. Thus they will take the very good gamble that the parity price a year from now may be moved up even higher, or that the mills will be so desperate for cotton that they will bid prices skyhigh...
...charge: violating antitrust laws by operating a worldwide cartel in borax. The antitrust division alleged that the companies controlled over 90% of the world supply (used for bombs, steel and copper alloys, etc.), most of which comes from California's Mojave Desert. The companies allegedly had kept prices skyhigh, had eliminated competition, and had hampered the war effort seriously. The antitrust action further charged that American Potash & Chemical was secretly owned by Germans, through a Netherlands dummy company, until October 1942 when the Alien Property Custodian took over...
Local dignitaries were shocked when Simone suddenly swooped among them, shouting brash advice for delaying the enemy. They were staggered when, just before the Nazis marched in, Simone slipped into her uncle's gasoline station, blew the tanks skyhigh...
...income after taxes would be reduced by only $25,000. Meanwhile Loew's would drop $45,000 into the pension fund for him. Thus a big pay cut now, when taxes are skyhigh, means only a small net reduction in his income...