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...machine, Romania soon came forward with an attractive deal, proposing to supply all the oil Haifa could handle at a nominal price. The single hitch was that all excess gas would be sold to Eastern Europe, and for this reason the pact was rejected by the Israeli government. Any Anglo-American sanctions on Israel would force the government into a similar deal almost immediately...
Tactful Benefits. This little flurry attracted a lot of attention, partly because it happened while the Anglo-American Council on Productivity was thrashing out ways & means of increasing British industrial efficiency. Labor's own Daily Mirror berated the dockers' action as "a strike against prosperity, a refusal to go forward with modern methods." Actually, in this case the employers were much at fault. When they put the stacking truck in, they violated a 1929 law forbidding employers to install labor-saving machines without consulting the workers first...
...become enmeshed in restrictive practices, the employers to shield themselves from the lash of competition, the workers to "spread the work." Sir Stafford Cripps, Britain's economic boss, was well aware of all this last summer when he and ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman cooked up the idea of an Anglo-American Council on Productivity. The main purpose was to give Britain-as tactfully as possible-the benefit of the best U.S. practice. The first British reaction was one of outraged pride and suspicion (TIME, Aug. 9). But British industry and trades unions have decided, in the main, to string along...
...British contingent of the Anglo-American Council is headed by big, bluff Sir Frederick Bain, deputy chairman of Imperial Chemicals and head of the Federation of British Industries; the U.S. contingent by Board Chairman Philip Reed of General Electric. The council met for the first time late in October, then set off on a whirlwind tour of factories-electrical and mechanical engineering, clothing, tire and radio plants near London, machine tool and auto plants in Birmingham, textile factories in Bradford, pottery works in Stoke, the busy Clydeside shipyards in Glasgow...
Stalin: "... a display of the aggressiveness of the ... Anglo-American and French ruling circles...