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...strike continues until then--and there was nothing to indicate tonight that it would not--steel mills will be closing down, railroads curtailing their service and crippling effects will begin to be felt throughout the country. Already a "brownout" had been ordered in Washington, the seat of government, including the darkening of the Capitol dome...
...stockpiles were dwindling rapidly, in some cases had already vanished. The railroads were still in good shape, with a two months' coal supply on hand. And be cause Canada's great hydro-electric plants are capable of producing all the electric power needed, there had been no brownout...
...cars left (a little less than a normal day's mining) of the 33,000 it had hoarded at the strike's start. At best the supply might last another week. In Chicago and Philadelphia, hard-hit utilities prepared for a return to the wartime brownout...
...full splendor for the first time since World War II began, London's lights shone again. Like hope, their return had been long deferred through gloomy phases of semi-blackout and brownout. But to many a bemused Londoner they were a luminous confirmation of all but incredible peace. Piccadilly coruscated with almost prewar brilliance. Whitehall glittered along its entire length. Down at the Embankment, the Thames shimmered a reflected radiance. And the lights did not come on only in London...
...preposterous blackout on news of the President's movements was lifted to a merely annoying brownout. Early this week the White House announced that President Truman and Secretary of State Byrnes had left Newport News by ship for the Big Three meeting in Potsdam. The news that the President was on his way over the now-pacific Atlantic was cautiously given out two days after he had sailed. (It was announced in Washington that if any flying were to be done, the President and Secretary of State Jimmy Byrnes would fly in separate planes-so as not to hand...