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...proclamation of an Indonesian "People's Republic" and his seizure of Madiun, Java's third city. Production of Indonesia's rubber, tin and oil and their distribution throughout the world was the basis of Holland's prewar prosperity. If the Communists succeed and choke off revival of this trade, it will take more than Marshall Plan aid to keep The Netherlands afloat...
...shown that either public or private interests will not be adversely affected." ICC reckoned that half a dozen other railroads-and therefore the public -would have been harmed. Example: Frank D. Beale, president of the Virginian Railway Co., wailed that a C. & O.-Central link would just about choke off his road...
...need make that kind of apology for Toscanini-and no one ever has. The "poison" that he spreads has only grown more potent and magical with the years. Today, the crowds that choke Manhattan's Radio City on Saturday nights for the Maestro's broadcast concerts hear the music of a man who is without question the greatest living conductor. They also look upon-and this is Toscanini's secret -an incorruptible man in a corruptible world...
Joshua Lockward Logan was agog with success last week: "Everything's been so wonderful I could choke. It's kind of an endless thing. It is really one of the biggest hits of our lifetime. I've never seen anything like this before in the theater. I practically choked. Why, a man said he'd write me a check for a million dollars for the screen rights. I wanted to accept just so I could see what a check for a million dollars looked like. But we want to do the thing ourselves in Hollywood some...
Before & after the wage increases, management argued that the U.S. was still getting no full dividend from full employment (60,000,000 jobs). Shortages tended to choke the full flow of production, and many a worker was so little worthy of his hire-and so little worried about losing his job-that productivity per worker was little if any better than in 1946. In short, 1947 could have been still better if everybody had worked harder and more efficiently...