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...production, Joe Louis, onetime genius of the clout, and Edgar A. Guest, genius of the jingle. One of its showpieces is its Institute of Arts, containing Diego Rivera's monstrous panorama of machines, gears and allegorical nudes. But the acme of its important art is the elegant chrome design of the automobile radiator...
...tariffs. When the U.S. totted up the results of the conference last week, it found that it had given more than it had taken. The U.S. granted tariff cuts up to 50% on $419 million of imports (as of 1949). The cuts apply to such strategic metals as lead, chrome and vanadium, and such luxuries as orchids and champagne. In return, the U.S. got tariff reductions from other nations on $1,057,000,000 of exports. Included in this list: typewriters, motor vehicles, tires, electric motors and dynamos. But the U.S. tariff cuts were given "across the board" (i.e., concessions...
...Russians do not appear to be developing Albania as a base for war. According to the best available information, they are not building a submarine base in Albania, as has been rumored. Russians are there first of all to pilfer the country, taking out oil, chrome and other minerals...
French opposition. Urged to flee, the Sultan of Morocco said then: "The Americans are my friends. I will greet them here." General George S. Patton gave the Sultan a jeep with chrome fenders which is still the pride of his 58-car garage. Two months later, the Sultan met Franklin D. Roosevelt, was deeply impressed. By January 1944, an independence party, underground since the 1930s, emerged as theIstiqlal (Arabic for independence), broke out with a manifesto which quoted the Atlantic Charter. Independence seemed a splendid idea, even to old Hadj El Glaoui, Pasha of Marrakech, leader of some...
President Colbert (pronounced Cahl-bert) hustled everywhere, greeting swarms of acquaintances with rarely a slip on a first name, meeting new ones with a hearty handshake. When dinnertime came, he held a chrome tray overhead like a gong, whacked it with a spoon, and led the parade of guests to the dining room...