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Across the rolling lands of Texas and Oklahoma, sweating harvesters drove their clanking combines in echelon, cutting wide swaths through the endless fields of golden wheat. As the winter wheat harvest hit its full stride last week, farmers were hard put to find a place for their bumper crop. In such railroad centers as Burkburnett, Tex., every available elevator was full to overflowing; shippers, caught by the shortage of railroad cars, were forced to dump the harvested grain in piles along the streets...
...confused. Direct bargaining between East and West is deadlocked. The conquerors no longer meet in the Allied Control Council: this highest official level was sliced away when Marshal Vasily Sokolovsky walked out last March 20 (TIME, March 29). Until this week, however, they still met in the lower-echelon Kommandatura, charged with the day-to-day business of running the capital. Here, each fortnight, white-haired Soviet General Alexander Kotikov rose to read an hour-long prepared indictment of the Western powers, then comfortably settled his 215 pounds in his chair and looked blank and bland while U.S. Representative Colonel...
...surprise U.S. decision calling for the return of Trieste to Italy caught the Communists badly off-balance. Fortunately for them, Italy's predominantly anti-Red newspapers were closed for five days by a typographers' strike. Communists held a frenzied series of high-echelon meetings, got their answers ready by last week, when the strike ended...
Seldom has Hollywood been so frightened about its future. In a panicky wave of economy, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer had cut its payroll 40%-wiping out one entire echelon of executives. Columbia Pictures had fired 25% of its employees, and RKO's Gower Street studio had been dark for ten days. This week the entire industry was shooting only 25 pictures. Even though the first of the year is always a low point, this was not quite half as many pictures as were under way at the same time last year...
Education of a G.I. Like many U.S. soldiers, Burns was shocked out of his complacency by the war. Gallery is a clear measure of his distaste for the bad manners of American troops, their black marketeering, their thoughtlessly insulting treatment of Europeans. His portraits of promotion-hungry, rear-echelon officers are often bitter and embarrassingly accurate...