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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paris flew Sir Stafford Cripps for a conference with U.S. Under Secretary of State Will Clayton on the leftovers of the U.S. loan. The shocking fact: if Britain keeps withdrawing funds at the present rate, nothing will be left by September. Two of the loan's agreements add to the-dollar drain: 1) the "nondiscrimination" clause, which forces the British to buy goods in the U.S., for dollars, which they might get elsewhere more expensively but for pounds; 2) the "sterling convertibility" clause, which forces the British to convert into dollars some of the sterling credits held by foreigners...
...financial jam. Today, Sir Patrick, 59, a big man with a glowing pink complexion, white toothbrush mustache and shaggy grey eyebrows, knows first-hand the many-sided operations of the company better than any of his predecessors. This week he is in Canada, to add to his knowledge...
However, Iron Age estimated that last week's price advances would add $350 million to the nation's steel bill, boost third-quarter steel earnings close to the first quarter's alltime high. So last week's steel rise would give the rest of the nation's heavy industries an occasion to boost prices even though many of them had not yet had any decline in their profits...
Epidemic. The first to mark the occasion was General Motors Corp. Olds had minimized the steel boost by declaring that it would add no more than $9 or $10 to the cost of the average automobile. But G.M. boosted car prices last week from $60 to $168, despite a record peacetime profit of $81,804,815 in the second quarter v. $65,818,019 in the first quarter. G.M.'s explanation: since November 1946, steel and almost all other materials have gone up in price along with wages. Its huge profit, said G.M., was due to low-cost materials...
Each year Library of Congress film reviewers wade through Hollywood's entire annual output, make some careful selections to add to the Library's vast (65 million feet) film collection. Now, after examining the 1,348 features, short subjects and newsreels copyrighted in 1946, the Library has taken its annual pick: 132 features, 176 shorts, all of the 531 newsreels...