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...slash into the artery running north from the fabled riches of the Dutch East Indies held the most fearsome possibilities of all. Japan was already getting a bitter foretaste...
...airborne army of 250,000 men was still a hovering menace that might swoop to cut any line of retreat anywhere. It could be used to speed the juncture of the Seventh Army in Provence with the forces before Paris. It might be dropped beyond Paris to slash the German escape route-or be set down in Germany beyond the Belfort Gap to speed an advance into Germany at the Swiss-border hinge of the Siegfried Line-or used to blaze the advance of the combined Allied Armies on north Germany along the coastal plane-the route by which Germany...
...hangar he wheeled Pan American Airways' grandiose postwar plans. Come war's end-and Civil Aeronautics Board approval-Pan Am plans to spend some $52,000,000 to expand its Latin American routes. And Juan Trippe stirred the earth-bound citizenry with news: Pan Am expects to slash flying time from the U.S. to Latin America by approximately two-thirds and will cut fares even below the present steamship rates. Examples: the fare from Manhattan to Rio de Janeiro will be reduced from $491.35 to $175; Manhattan to Buenos Aires from $561.35 to $190.50; Los Angeles to Buenos...
Saturday: YANK BAYONETS SLASH PATH INTO CHERBOURG...
...boom seemed to be based on the fact that U.S. railroads, in general, have sensibly used a large chunk of swollen wartime profits to buy up their bonds and slash their fixed charges. Many are in the best financial shape of their lives. Traditionally, when these bonds move up toward par, stocks eventually follow. Example: Louisville & Nashville 53 (2003), above par at 107, have fluctuated only one and a half points in a year; the road's stock has soared 20 points...