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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...caught by chance-when Canadian Intelligence Corpsmen casually inquired about his identity, got answers that did not add up. This week a court-martial was still at work figuring out how much time Adrien Demers must serve...
Britain, in spite of Lend-Lease, is ?20 billion worse off than before the war. She does not want to add to her staggering debt, because she does not see how she can pay interest. Yet she must have dollars if she is ever to emerge from the refuge of blocked sterling balances which restrict her own and the world's trade. At present Britain, with a reserve of only ?2 billion, cannot pay the ?12 to ?16 billion she owes India, Egypt and the other sterling countries...
...have been no takers. Reason: the chances of getting any new competitors in the aluminum business now are almost nonexistent. The highest alltime prewar aluminum consumption in the U.S. was under 400 million pounds. Alcoa alone can produce more than twice that amount -860 million pounds. Reynolds Metals can add another 160 million. Already on hand is a war-built stockpile of a billion pounds. Thus RFC must find operators willing to take a long chance, or (more likely) shut down the plants...
...from San Francisco and Los Angeles to Hong Kong via Manila, expand to Tokyo, Bangkok, Batavia and Calcutta, where it would connect up with Pan Am's routes east from New York, thus nearly circle the globe. It would also keep its prewar route to New Zealand and add a route to Australia via Noum...
...response to the new constitution for a World Education and Cultural Organization which was released by the State Department early this month, Robert Ulich, professor of Education in the Graduate School, in a recent SERVICE NEWS interview declared himself "highly optimistic about its potentialities." But he hastened to add, "there is ample possibility for the misinterpretation of many of the high sounding generalities. A great deal will depend on the outcome of the next London Conference of Allied Ministers of Education...