Word: skywards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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London's Daily Express indignantly told a vinous tale. Its point: even the British Government has been touched by the profit fever which has kicked the prices of scarce luxuries skyward in Britain. Said the Express...
Smoke pillars writhed skyward last week from Calcutta's five burning ghats. Emaciated Indians shoveled at least 100 Hindu dead into the ancient fires each day. Possibly greater numbers of Moslem corpses were buried, fellow victims of a bitter, ten-month-old Indian food shortage now grown to famine proportions...
...night of August 4 the Tommies heard dynamite detonating in Catania, saw flames stabbing skyward. The Germans were destroying and evacuating. At 8:30 a.m. the Eighth marched past shattered pillboxes into Sicily's second city, the biggest city yet taken by a British army in World War II. Bomb-weary, hungry Sicilians stepped from the ruins, with cheers of relief, and cries for bread. For General Montgomery, it was another famous victory. From Catania and Paterno the Eighth thrust columns up the west and east slopes of Mt. Etna for the cleanup in Sicily...
...from a Solomons base streaked 16 twin-tailed Army Lightning fighters, feathering their own wind-blown wakes as they hugged the water to stay out of the beams of Jap radiodetectors. Near the enemy base at Kahili, twelve of the pilots horsed back on their wheels, ripped skyward with whining turbosuperchargers to give top cover. The four near the water bored on, found unexpected game: three Jap bombers waddling home with a heavy cover of Zeros...
...Profits and the Losses. The court decisions raised hob. Hardest hit were junior bondholders and stockholders in receivership railroads. They have watched railroad profits soar skyward for months, had become convinced they could get the ICC-sponsored reorganization plans changed enough to make their holdings highly profitable. When the Court said no, receivership rail stocks on the New York Stock Exchange nose-dived 50 to 80%. Prices for junior bonds jumped the tracks. Western Pacific preferred stock flopped from $3 to 70?; Rock Island 7% preferred from...