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...ASCAP members, but last week, in the midst of ASCAP's squabble to get more money out of the radio chains, the Department of Justice began to close in on the society. Under way in Washington were negotiations for a consent decree by which ASCAP would forsake its blanket agreements. Since these blanket agreements have been a major factor in the networks' difficulties with ASCAP, it looked at week's end as if the Department of Justice might spike a major ASCAP gun. Meanwhile the society and the networks continued brawling bitterly. Still ignored by both...
...greatest insurance blanket of all time was dramatically unrolled by Winston Churchill last week in the House of Commons. Ticketed as The War Damage Bill, this measure was estimated to blanket some $30 billions worth of British buildings with insurance, for which the owners would pay compulsory premiums of $800 millions in the next five years. The bill would authorize the Treasury in an emergency to pay another $800 millions into the "premium pool" which the Government thus set last week provisionally at $1,600 millions. If the grand total of war damage to British buildings turns...
...additional burden of less than one quarter of one per cent. Of the 47,000,000 people in the United Kingdom, the Führer's assaults had killed up to Oct. 31 only 14,700. Accordingly, Winston Churchill last week proposed no immediate Government venture in blanket wartime life insurance, although it was rumored in Whitehall that Treasury civil servants are working up a draft of such a bill...
Hocking's letter condemned "giving a blanket endorsement to the war aims of Great Britain before it is possible to know what in the concrete they will be," and urged that the interests of this nation will best be served by an "Independent view of what things we desire to support, and what things we are willing to fight...
Snow sifted last week through the mountain peaks and troughs of perpendicular little Albania. It laid a white blanket over thousands of stiff dead Italian soldiers on bleak slopes and in forested ravines from Porto Edda, where many of them had landed, northeastward to Lake Ochrida and the east-west gorges of the Shkumin River, where Italian commanders strove to make a stand against the relentless, amazing Greeks. Most Italians abhor cold as they do the sharp Greek bayonet, which Rome last week plaintively called a "barbaric and inhuman" weapon...