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...Beggar's Opera. John Gay's 18th century English operetta is turned, by Peter Brook and Laurence Olivier, into a classic cinemusical (TIME, Aug...
President Eisenhower had persuaded Congress to 1) extend the reciprocal-trade act for one year; 2) set up a commission to study the problem. Last summer he appointed the 17-member commission, headed by Inland Steel Co.'s Clarence B. Randall (TIME, Aug. 24); advocates of freer trade had hopes that the commission would emerge with a program less protectionist than present laws...
...arms plants boomed, farms and light industry slumped. This economic unbalance leaves Russia well geared for a short war, but liable to great strains, particularly in food production, in a long-drawn-out war of atomic attrition. It is a fact that has been noted by Malenkov himself (TIME, Aug. 17). "Things are bad," said Malenkov. "The volume of production of consumer goods cannot satisfy us . . . We are not meeting the demands of the population for meat, milk and eggs. All this is damaging to the national security...
...cattle (30 out of 70 million), half its hogs (12 out of 26 million), one-third of its sheep. In the famine that followed (1931-33), millions more peasants died of hunger; and millions of those who remained were driven into kolkhozes (collective farms), subjected to the law of Aug. 7, 1932: "Death by shooting for any theft from the sacred and inviolable property of the kolkhoz...
Roof Saver. To cut down losses such as occurred at General Motors Livonia plant fire (TIME, Aug. 24), Cleveland's Lexsuco, Inc. brought out a vinyl plastic roofing material, which will char, but not burn. The plastic replaces layers of felt, stuck together with asphalt, which separate the roof deck from its insulation. It was the melting asphalt that intensified the fire at Livonia when it fell into the flames. Cost is no higher than standard roof construction. First customer: Ford Motor Co., for an addition to its Cleveland engine plant...