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...underselling Swiss have since held on to the biggest share of the domestic market. But Elgin may supply the new spring metal ("Elgiloy") to other watchmakers if they want it. Elgin believes it has enough bounce to put the U.S. on top again-and strength enough to keep it there...
Success in Singapore. Instantly, he set to work again-and this time, his eye fell on the ancient island of Singapore. Centuries earlier, a flourishing city had stood there, but it had become merely a negligible appendage to the Malayan Sultanate of Johore. Where Singapore city now stands were "four or five little huts, and six or seven coconut trees . . . and there was one house, a little larger where the [prime minister] lived." It seems to have occurred to no one but the sharp-eyed Raffles that by establishing a "free city" on this spot, Britain might drain the trade...
...secrets are perishable. The atomic bomb greatly widened the enormous gap between the top powers and the rest of the nations. In a few years it might change the world's political picture again-and far more drastically. In the long run, this new weapon might tend to place nations on the same level of power, just as gunpowder had leveled feudal classes...
...Production Board, product of half a dozen earlier crises, went through another upheaval last week. Its Boss Donald Nelson, torn between his natural urge to compromise and his belated resolution to "get tough," had reorganized WPB again-and left it teetering on a higher precipice than ever before. No plain citizen could hope now to follow the tortured quarreling inside WPB; even Elder Statesman Bernard M. Baruch, out of his experience as World War I's one-man production board, could only shake his old grey head and gloom: "Tinkering, tinkering, always tinkering. Patching. They have no overall plan...
...done before. He wanted to explain England to Americans by short-waving his dramatized observations of the English. Sunspots and short-wave incorrigibility spoiled U.S. reception of four of his seven broadcasts from Britain. Last week, at home under the happier auspices of U.S. medium wave, Corwin tried again-and scored...