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...Mawgmi mine closed down in June, the teak sawmills in July. Gem prospecting has almost stopped, and Burma is now reduced to importing instead of exporting oil. Rebel forays on transportation lines have forced the Burmese to fly oil to the interior, where the price has risen to $6.30 a gallon. Rice exports have tobogganed, too. Burma exported about 3,000,000 tons of rice before the war. This year's exports will be less than 1,000,000. Next year the government hopes to have 730,000 tons for export, but many believe the figure will be lower...
...trying not to displease anybody very much, Prime Minister Attlee seemed to have pleased almost nobody. After he revealed his proposals for cutting down government expense (TIME, Oct. 31), almost every section of the British press heaped on him a storm of abuse...
...Commons, Sir Stafford Cripps made yet another of his austerity speeches. "We can draw no more," he said gloomily, "from our already attenuated reserves." Dollar imports of food and tobacco would be cut still further-in fact, Sir Stafford made it clear that dollar imports would be cut almost down to the indispensable bone of raw materials for British factories. Cripps also called for a stoppage of loans and credits to other countries, and a check on the "unrequited exports" which Britain has been shipping to the Dominions in order to pay off sterling balances (war debts...
Economically, Dairen is almost completely prostrate. The port itself, once capable of berthing 50 to 60 ships, now handles about one foreign freighter and two Russian ships weekly...
Playing on a tile-floored court and using a ponderous outdoor-style basketball with outside seams, a picked Argentine five followed Don Sensato's advice. They used the bounce pass almost exclusively, scooted under and around the Oklahomans who were runners-up for the A.A.U. championship last year, actually beat them (55-46) in the second of three games (the Oilers had won the first, 38-29). The fans, who could scarcely believe their eyes, carried the local heroes away on their shoulders and the Buenos Aires Critica proclaimed that it was "David and Goliath all over again." Even...