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...swoop below the gun level, bombed the deep-gorge bridges with relative impunity. Later the guns were lowered. Last week it was said that along the Road supply trucks were jammed up by the hundreds-fine bombing targets -waiting for flimsy wooden ferries often unable to float a single truckload...
...Academy's scouts had scoured Portugal's mountain villages. In some they had been treated like a looting army. Angry villagers, seeing their shrines dismantled, rang their church bells. In the town of Vizeu a crowd of buzzing parishioners surrounded a truckload of paintings, for two days refused to budge. To get a strong-faced portrait of St. Peter out of São João, the Minister of Education had to go in person, beg its release in the name of the Government...
...whom the merchant had extended liberal credit in years of drought, poor cotton prices, piled into his store in response to his ad. First day of the sale they cleaned his shelves of about $1,000 worth of stock -all he had. He laid in more goods, including a truckload of refrigerators, took on an extra salesman. By last week's end the refrigerators were all gone and Storekeeper Ballew had moved some $8.000 worth of merchandise. With one week to go he addressed a final plea to his customers: "Folks, it's just like the monkey said...
...them to the Board of Health as dysentery cases. Next day the number had tripled, and State Welfare Director Archibald Leonard Bowen, knowing that many modern doctors do not recognize a case of typhoid when they see one, at once chlorinated the hospital's water supply, sent a truckload of typhoid vaccine to the hospital. But it was too late...
...Skinner Theory is based on the fact that, before a car is bought, a truckload of goods is shipped, a bridge built, money usually changes hands. Working from weekly bank statements, Mr. Skinner has evolved a number of formulas for watching this financial ebb & flow as it relates to various factors such as stock prices, bond prices, commodity prices, etc. TIME applies this same method not as a measure of business volume but of business' financial soundness-i.e., an Index of Business Conditions. The resulting Index differs radically from the several specialized indexes Mr. Skinner has developed...