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Flying the new CinCLant's flag was a brand-new four-star Admiral: barrel-chested Jonas Howard Ingram, Medal-of-Honorman and onetime Navy fullback, who had served a long tour fighting submarines and running diplomatic errands among the Latin Americas as Commander of the Fourth (South Atlantic) Fleet. He had done so well at both jobs that no Navyman begrudged hurricane-voiced, gregarious Jonas Ingram his new star and his job in the Navy's most important sea command outside of the Pacific...
...told farmers that their troubles were due to the fact that the farmer had to buy in a tariff-protected market, sell in competition with "the peon workers of the Argentine. . . ." For this familiar complaint John Bracken, who is a farmer himself, had a brand-new farmer's remedy-he would replace such agricultural aids as guaranteed floor prices and special subsidy payments with a basic formula: let farm prices be fixed in advance of each crop year at levels high enough to guarantee the farmers "their proportionate share of the national income...
...lily boom, and a brand-new industry. On the West Coast, in Louisiana and Florida, people who never grew anything in their lives are now raising bulbs. The reason: the war cut off the 22 to 25 million lily bulbs which...
Incitement to Hatred. Hepburn sighted his guns at Premier Drew's most vulnerable spot: his campaign against Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King's brand-new, popular "baby bonuses" (TIME, July 3). Drew had trumpeted that the bonus was an invasion of Ontario's rights, proclaimed that Ontario was being taxed to appease French Quebec. Cried Hepburn: ". . . an incitement to hatred against a neighboring province, but, worse than that ... an incitement to hatred against one-third of our own Ontario population" (the French Canadians...
...Current Crop. All but drowned in the postwar hubbub was the West Coast's brand-new American Football League, which was finding college box-office competition a hard nut to crack. Last week, a 4,000 handful turned out to see the Los Angeles Mustangs meet the Los Angeles Wildcats in a league tussle, whereas 60,000 fans had braved 105° temperatures the day before to watch the University of Southern California play U.C.L.A. This month, further complicating the customer quest, the four-year-old Pacific Coast Football League swings into action...