Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aerial bombing, the range and speed of airplanes. Yet the most effective innovation of the Spanish civil war was a crude anti-tank weapon- bottles of gasoline wrapped in burning rags which were hurled at Insurgent tanks by Loyalist infantry. And the record for long-distance artillery fire is still held by the monster guns with which, during World War I, the Germans shelled Paris from a wood 70-odd miles away...
Although modern beach apparel has taken some wind out of Mr. White's mainsail, his cuties are still beyond cavil. For the rest, the 1939 Scandals, like its predecessors, is a swiftly paced professional amateur hour occasionally bright, often dirty, sometimes painfully in need of a gong. There is one good song, Are You Having Any Fun?, energetically shouted by 52nd Street's Scotcha Ella Logan; one big, loud ensemble, hymning Tin Pan Alley; Tapper Ann Miller, who has some things Tapper Eleanor Powell has not; and a shimmy-shake called the Mexiconga, which will not be a successor...
Friday at dawn, lights were still burning in the Stock Exchange where a skeleton summer clerical staff was compiling the transactions of the biggest trading day (1,306,690 shares) since October, 1911. The New York Times average of 50 stocks, standing at $64.69 on Monday, had dropped 10% to $57.77 by Thursday. European holders of U. S. stocks were jettisoning their financial cargoes and the panic had spread to U. S. investors. By 9 a. m., brokers were swamped by a tidal wave of selling orders...
...babies (steel, metals, aircrafts) led the advance. Bethlehem Steel, Santa Claus to many a World War I investor, zoomed 7: points (to 65), Anaconda Copper was up 4? (to 28?). Aircraft stocks all took off, registered gains of 7.5% to 18.1%. The Dow-Jones industrial average hit 135.25 (still 19.65 below the 1939 high of last January...
Saturday's preholiday two-hour trading session showed clearly that U. S. investors were eager to cut themselves into war profits. War stocks continued to zoom and the Dow-Jones industrial average hit 137.97, helped by war babies, unhurt by nonwar stocks, which generally stood still or picked up small gains. Between 10 o'clock and noon 1,791,250 shares changed hands...