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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would like to compare two stories that appeared in your Jan. 3 issue. One, the account of Wolf Ladejinsky, the U.S. agricultural attaché, fired as a security risk for the flimsiest of reasons. He was publicly condemned by the Agriculture Department in spite of having been previously cleared by the State Department. The other story was that of Irmgard Schmidt, the German girl who obtained secrets for the Russians by using her charms on U.S. Air Force intelligence officers. These intelligence officers are certainly security risks since they obviously are easy prey for a shapely girl. Who are they...
Continuing to dominate the budget are expenditures for major national-security programs (defense, military aid, atomic energy, etc.). Estimated at $40.5 billion for 1956, cold-war spending would account for 65% of all the Government's outgo. The biggest part of that outlay ($34 billion) would go for defense, and would be spent to fit Dwight Eisenhower's concept of an efficient military force in a nuclear age: more air power, more fire power, less manpower. Said Old Soldier Eisenhower: "Never in our peacetime history have we been as well prepared to defend ourselves...
President Dodge once turned down a prominent businessman for a small loan when he learned that the man held some stock shares on margin. "Anyone who buys on margin is a poor financial risk," said Dodge, thus losing the loan applicant's big corporate account. Nevertheless, Dodge multiplied the Detroit Bank's assets tenfold and attracted 380,000 accounts. "We run a kind of basement dry-goods business," he explained...
...read today's account of Mr. Philbrick about the famine in China one would think the flood of the Yangtze River but a rumor. The Chinese Communists have "allegedly lost crops due to a flood." This flood was mentioned in most of the local papers in August of last year as the worst in China's history for the Yangtze River. The last flood of that river, less severe than this one, drowned 140,000 persons and left 10 million homeless. The famine that followed in its wake brought death by starvation to 52 million Chinese men, women, and children...
...same supernatural theme as to suggest that the author, who has been writing plays for years about tricks with time ( I Have Been Here Before, Time and the Conways}, would rather like to take his fantasies seriously. The one exception is Uncle Phil on TV, an uproarious account of how the unwanted uncle whose insurance money was spent by his family on a TV set returns to haunt every program they turn...