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...currency issue. All old notes of 50 to 5,000 francs would be invalid after June 16. Purpose: to perk up France's drooping finances by clearing lost or destroyed bank notes off the books; to smoke out black-market and other illegal war fortunes, and hoarding; to cancel French currency still in German hands or otherwise "irregularly" held abroad...
Always a good German, Strauss has been an on-again-off-again friend of the Nazis. Last June, he publicly snapped his fingers at Hitler's threat to cancel his birthday celebration, said: "It was not I who started the war" (TIME, July 17). Even then, the Kultur-conscious Nazis, considering his prestige valuable to Germany, let him be. As the war approached his doorstep, the aged composer continued to cultivate his musical garden...
...encourage feed-lot operators to resume full operations and feed their cattle to heavier weights, the Office of Price Administration will cancel its plan to lower ceiling prices for choice cattle...
...unable to operate at a profit, closed their mills. In San Luis 1,000 desperate workers seized the city hall, settled down for a hunger strike to force the Government to open the local mill. Grau had appeased the mill owners with four-year tax exemptions, had threatened to cancel their quotas unless they ground sugar. The mills remained closed. Then Grau cracked a heavier whip. Sugar mills would prepare for production at once, the President ordered, or face confiscation...
...announcing his intention to cancel this year's reading, Professor Copeland said, "The attention of our young men in taken up with the most important things in the world. I don't think the young men will have the time or inclination for such things...