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...professional baseball's one-man judge, jury and police force, Judge Landis had the power to cancel a World Series, banish an owner or manager, void any deal at any time. Truculent, profane, razor-sharp, he had only to look down his nose to make everybody hop. Most times they didn't like it, but his kind of tyrannical power was good for the game, and baseballers knew...
...aged 17 to 20 who are not yet subject to the draft (as contrasted with the U.S., already calling up 1 8-year-olds). And its population increase supplies a new class of 200,000 to 250,000 spring-legged fanatical recruits each year -more than enough to cancel combat losses on the 1941-44 scale...
...must, he said, do certain things to give other nations complete confidence in the dollar (which is to be the key currency), such as: cancel all World War I debts ($14,256,000,000); repeal the Johnson Act; repeal all silver-purchase legislation; repeal the Gold Reserve Act amendments allowing the Treasury to trade in gold at other than the official rate of $35 per ounce; free the dollar of all exchange controls. Other items: the U.S. must also incidentally balance the federal budget, and, of course, must avoid both a postwar boom or a depression...
Hollywood moved to protect its celluloid epics from the competition of epic news from Europe. Reported Variety last week: producers now add a clause to all contracts, permitting them to cancel the premiere of any super-picture, if peace breaks out in Europe as the picture is about to have a razzle-dazzle opening...
...immediately, and another 80,000 by year's end. This news was concealed in an optimistic release which chose to stress increased production of long-range bombers-Boeing B-29s and the new super-Liberator, the B32. But what the War Department had mainly done was to cancel C46 cargo-plane production at Higgins in New Orleans, and cutback P47 output...