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...million; additionally, Britain owes its continental neighbors some $500 million.* The sterling area's gold reserve (down to an approximate $2.8 billion) is dwindling faster than ever before. "If we do not . . . correct the disparity between what we earn and what we buy," warned Butler, "we shall [become] bankrupt, idle and hungry...
Marxism seems dead among the U.S. young; belief in democracy is strong but inarticulate. The one new movement that has begun in the younger generation is what Poet-Professor Peter Viereck calls the revolt against revolt-an attempt to give youth a conservative credo to stand up against the bankrupt but lingering political radicalism...
Values F.O.B. Ferris tries to fill the loveless void with cocktails, out-of-town stag sprees, and finally an affair with a rich divorcee, Mary Raeburn. While the whole town is clucking, Ferris discovers that Mary, in her own way, is as much of an emotional bankrupt as Enid. One afternoon he finds her doubled in pain from the need for dope; she is a hopeless addict...
...Committee probing RFC last week drew a bead on one of RFC's best customers-Kaiser-Frazer Corp. In a 30-page report, the Committee charged RFC should not have made a $34 million loan to K-F in October 1949. Even though K-F would have gone bankrupt without it, said the Committee, K-F's prospects of repaying out of earnings were so dim that "the public [interest]...did not justify the use of public funds to continue operation of K-F as an auto company." Following the first loan, K-F tapped...
That evening, the Communist-led Tudeh party struck in Teheran. The success of the Harriman mission would arrest Iran's march to chaos and kill the Reds' chance of taking power in a bankrupt country. Ten thousand demonstrators, shouting about "Harriman, warmonger" and "Rapacious American imperialists," rushed toward Majlis Square...