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...within three months beginning last August (1 brought the markets to the lowest point of all time, 2 was about the same as the decline in 1929, 3 brought the market to the lowest point since 1929, 4 was comparable to the drop in 1921's was the swiftest decline of U. S. business and finance in thirty years...
...several particulars the Recession is more remarkable than the Depression. It is remarkable because the 35% plummet from last summer's high is the swiftest decline in the history of U. S. business and finance. It is remarkable because the big, obvious factors which are usually held responsible for economic retrograde- swollen credit, top-heavy inventories, unmanageable surpluses-are not in existence. Business did overextend itself last spring, just before the President dampered the roaring commodity boom. But in large measure the principal cause of the Recession appears to be purely psychological, the result of Capital's mass...
...last year won seven out of eight Grand Prix races in Europe, easily outclassed Italy's Tazio Nuvolari, the 1936 Vanderbilt Cup winner. Rosemeyer got away fast at the start this week, temporarily yielded his lead to his countryman Rudolf Caracciola until the tenth lap. Noisiest and swiftest (160 m.p.h.) on the straightaways, Rosemeyer roared up a lead of two-thirds of a lap before the race was one-third run. Headed only when he dropped out for tire changes on the 79th lap, Rosemeyer soon caught young Dick Seaman of England piloting a Mercedes. Then for ten laps...
Melanin is also the coloring matter of black cancer, one of the swiftest and most deadly forms of this disease. Since black cancers are malignant tumors and raised pigmented moles are benign tumors, pathologists call both Melanomas. What all cancer specialists know and what few laymen realize is that black moles sometimes turn suddenly into black cancers which are rarely recognized in time to save the victim's life...
...Foreign Office, the big bay window in which British Idealism is kept on view. On the Hoare side, where upper lips are kept stiff, there was silent, discreet, professional conviction that Sir Sidney Barton in Addis Ababa is anything but a fool, and that Empire progress has often been swiftest when the British Lion's right paw quite honestly did not know what the left paw was doing. In the City a most unusual rumor was current that the head of one of Britain's "Big Five" banks, normally as remote as the moon from wildest overseas speculation...