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After the war, Canada went all-out to cultivate South America. Most-favored-nation trade agreements with Latin American countries were extended to a total of 16. By May of this year, there were Canadian Trade & Commerce Department offices in Mexico, Guatemala, Cuba, Colombia, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela and Peru. Canadian investments south of the Rio Grande, principally in mining, oil and public utilities, now total some $150 million.† Canadian banks and insurance companies are pushing business with the Latinos...
...all-out effort by some airlines to attract more aerial freight cargo, United, American, and Pennsylvania-Central last week were pressing the Civil Aeronautics Board for permission to reduce their freight rates on a number of commodities an average of 33⅓%, putting them just a few cents higher than those on railway express...
Uneasy Stirrings. Now that the FBI was officially under way on the all-out loyalty check, a certain uneasiness began to stir in Government offices and at least part of the nation's press. The case of the State Department employees seemed to reverse the process of Anglo-Saxon law-which assumes that the accused is innocent until proved guilty. It seemed to violate the spirit, if not the letter, of their constitutional rights. Also, the ten had apparently been convicted of disloyalty on mere "derogatory information," which was the tool of a police state and not a democracy...
...Boston Braves, in an all-out public-relations effort, offered night baseball fans a dinner at Boston's staid Somerset Hotel, a seat at the game and cab rides to and from the ball park-all for $4.50. The corporation counsel for the District of Columbia said that it is legal for a minor to drink in capital bars so long as he does not order the drink, pay for it, or have it set in front of him by a tavern owner or waiter. He added: "For a child to drink with his parents is the greatest safeguard...
Puckish John Knewstub Rothenstein, the Tate's present director, is a man given to pastel-colored shirts and the adjective "delicious." He is all-out for modern art. During the war, Rothenstein packed most of the Tate's treasures off to rural hiding places, then busied himself with the acquisition of over 600 new works, including some by British Modernists Graham Sutherland, Henry Moore, John Piper. The gallery was bombed (only six of its 34 rooms are usable now), but attendance has climbed to more than double prewar. Rothenstein realizes that much of what he buys will soon...