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Since store operating costs are relatively inflexible, net profits soar much faster than sales. For the average storekeeper, 1941 is the lushest year in a decade; for smart operators, the best ever. Some semiannual reports...
Britons wanted to know why, with seven months in which to do it, the Cretan airdromes had not been either fortified or dynamited against Nazi landings. They wanted to know why Nazi planes had been able to soar against Crete in hordes from Greek airdromes which British officials had called practically useless...
...when commercial FM is expected to be better organized, will programming become a major item with FMers. Nowadays their chief worry is the installation of commercial transmitters. Best place for transmitters is upon mountain tops. Trouble is that mountains crop up in sparsely populated areas, don't often soar over cities where the largest audiences are available...
Muscovites, of course, read nothing of their Dictator's amours, but Miss Raskova has blossomed in the Soviet press as a frequent writer on the thrills of flying. She effusively described how she felt soar ing over Moscow during the May Day celebration of 1935: "We could see everything ! . . . We knew of surety that there [on the Red Square], surrounded by his friends and comrades, was Stalin, and we were proud in the realization that at that moment, raising his head high, he was gazing at us. Perhaps he was even waving his hand...
...first signs of war in most European cities were lean newspapers. Stripped of their usual verbiage, they were cut down to eight or twelve or 16 pages, in Poland to one sheet. Object (see p. 19): to save newsprint. Many a U. S. publisher, watching his circulation figures soar as fat editions pushed each other off his presses, wondered if presently he too might not feel a paper shortage, followed by rising prices. In World War I newsprint went from $40 a ton to a 1920 peak...