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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that the hottest black market item now is playing cards. None have been manufactured there since before the war, and there are no Communist allocations for reviving the industry. Low's deck of cards was virtually snatched from him by a waiter in a Budapest cafe, and the current demand for them throughout the Balkans is apparently unlimited...
...Capital? The Economist wants to know how a state that takes 40% of all income is going to find enough savings to maintain its capital. "The harassed Chancellors of the Exchequer of the future will be hard enough put to it to balance their [current] books, without putting on still more taxes to provide a fund of public savings...
...Boston's most treasured rituals is being shown off at the Opera House this week and next. An exhibition of matrons, clothes, and jewelry comparable to a museum display can be viewed daily between the acts of any of the operas which the Metropolitan is putting on during its current stand...
...Number One has gone to Professor Emory L. Chafee for research in electronics. One of Chafee's jobs is to invent new kinds of vacuum tubes--he is now working on one that spins a light wave around a beam of electrons. The two interact to strengthen an electric current...
...changes would allow working members to join the cabinet and would provide them with a vote on policy decisions equal to that of the current executive group of the cabinet. At present the representative members of the Key are the only ones who can vote on the policy decisions...