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After the planes had gone a hush settled over the battlefield. Soldiers left their foxholes and stopped to chat with one an other. In the strange quiet, men's spirits began rapidly to soar. Chuck Horner said: "This is the hardest battle we've had since El Guettar. I think"cross your fingers"we're going to get Troina tonight." Another Night. Except for the small pocket on our right, the Germans seemed to have departed. Chuck Horner chose a patrol to scout the approaches to the town. As the sun sank behind the hills, casting...
Skyrocket. For years Consolidated struggled along as a modest steel fabricator (one of its big jobs was making spillway gates, tunnel forms, for Boulder Dam) until the defense program handed it a sky rocket. But it was Alden Roach who touched it off, watched his company soar to its present annual rate of $250,000,000, almost 150 times the bleak...
...this adds up to a. tidy, theoretical 400,000-bbl. surplus over domestic demand under rationing. But: Eastern fuel-oil stocks must be built up (in winter demand goes well above the annual average) and military demands will probably soar. The difference between rationed consumer demand and maximum foreseeable deliveries is only a few insignificant tanker loads...
...Government has already allowed wages in special cases in the building trades to soar far above the limits set by the "Little Steel" formula-the line which the Administration is trying to hold in its war against inflation...
...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...