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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unlivable city in the U.S.; Pittsburgh's domination of the steel world was literally at stake. Markets for steel had moved westward. The Supreme Court's decision outlawing the basing-point system (by which Pittsburgh steel plants had absorbed freight costs to distant markets) had caused consternation among steelmen. Pittsburgh, with much of its equipment overworked and worn out by the war, was faced with determined competition from other steel centers; Chicago, with less steelmaking capacity, had actually outproduced...
...Canadian corporation. Through Continental, the quartet bought more than twelve million barrels of Texas oil for $1.50 a barrel and then sold it to other corporations in their control for $1.75. This gave them a tidy $3,000,000 profit which they invested in Liberty bonds and whacked up among themselves without informing either their stockholders or the Treasury Department...
...Ominous Specific. From Moscow came the most remarkable reaction of all. For more than 24 hours after President Truman's announcement, the Russians maintained silence. Then Tass released a deadpan communiqué deploring the "alarm among broad social circles" which the Washington news had caused. Tass suggested that the West had, just possibly, been fooled. "In the Soviet Union . . . building work on a large scale is in progress-hydroelectric stations, mines, canals, roads-which evokes the necessity of large-scale blasting . . . It is possible that this might draw attention beyond the confines of the Soviet Union." As for atomic...
...week's end, 24 nations had followed Britain in slashing the dollar price of their currencies. For some it was like pulling teeth. Belgium, with one of the hardest currencies in Europe, groaned and devalued by 12.3%. Among the holdouts were Switzerland, Italy and Pakistan, but all of them faced trouble exporting their goods at the old exchange rates. Few were in the monopoly position of Pakistan, which seemed to have decided that India could not get along without Pakistani jute and cotton and would have to pay at the pre-devaluation rate for them. (India promptly raised cries...
...HICOG (High Commission for Germany), McCloy has had to build a new staff from the ground up. The only two Clay men are Major General George P. Hays, deputy military governor, who will stay on as McCloy's deputy, and Major General James P. Hodges. Among the new members of McCloy's "cabinet" are the State Department's old Germany hand, James Riddleberger, who will be in charge of political affairs; Benjamin J. Buttenwieser, formerly of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. in New York, who is assistant high commissioner; and Labor Director Harvey W. Brown, former A.F.L. official...