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...powers was centered on Germany. Washington last week was pervaded by an urgent conviction that the disagreements between Britain, France and the U.S. which have stymied and confused Western policy in Germany must be resolved. One high U.S. official read the report of Emmet Hughes, TIME'S Berlin Bureau Chief, on the state of Germany (TIME, April 4), and commented: "It's all too true...
TIME'S Berlin Bureau Chief Emmet Hughes spent the past month touring Western Germany to size up the nature of the crisis the Washington conference must try to meet. His report...
Well aware of the close tie with U.S. shippers, Lloyd's Register tried to soothe the American Bureau of Shipping by saying: "There should be many opportunities in the future for cooperation . . . for the benefit of world shipping...
Overall U.S. production was slackening a bit. The Federal Reserve Board's production index (1935-39 average 100) dropped two points in February to 189, five points below a year ago. The Bureau of Labor Statistics' cost of living index slipped 1.1% between Jan. 15 and Feb. 15 to 169-the greatest monthly drop in nine years (but the index was still 27% above June 1946, when OPA was killed...
Union. U.S. counterpart of Lloyd's Register is the 87-year-old American Bureau of Shipping, which handles marine rating for nearly all U.S. flag vessels. Last year Lloyd's and J. Lewis Luckenbach, president of A.B.S., worked out a deal that would divide the world's multimillion-dollar classifying business between them. The A.B.S. dropped its 32-year-old working agreement with the British Corporation Register of Shipping, Lloyd's biggest rival in the United Kingdom, and arranged to dovetail its operations with Lloyd's instead...