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Gone are the small-print clauses; there remains a list of eight charities, chosen by the drive committee, which are only superficially obscured by a large pink veritas shield. The committee reports that it chose these charities carefully, basing its decision mainly on the percentage of its income which the...
There were some brutal facts to make clear. "Defense" was a misnomer. If an atomic bomb ever exploded above a U.S. city, thousands would die despite all the efforts of such men as Clay and his staff. Cities are pretty much defenseless and their populations are naked under the enemy...
* Washington learned last week that much of the information on which the B-29s were basing their bombing of industrial targets had been obtained by Edwin W. Pauley in 1946 when, as U.S. representative on war reparations in Korea, he had made a trip through North Korea, taking photographs and...
Like the blind men who tried to describe an elephant, few agreed on the meaning of Congress' bill to legalize a form of basing point pricing system for U.S. industry (TIME, June 12). The bill's author, Democratic Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney, no friend of big...
But U.S. industry, which has been prosecuted before on other matters after taking such assurances at face value, would probably think twice before testing Truman's promise. And such industries as steel, cement, etc., which were most affected by the 1948 Supreme Court decision outlawing the basing point system...