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...Lange, this was somewhat confusing. Fortnight before, the U.S. had in effect torpedoed the efforts of Sweden to get Norway and Denmark to join in a neutral Scandinavian bloc, which would have no ties to the Atlantic pact. It had been Sweden's hope that the U.S. would arm such a bloc. But the U.S. replied that its arms would go first to the nations joining up in the Atlantic pact...
...voice was that of Haitian Colonel Astrel Roland, accused by the Haitian government a fortnight ago of heading a Dominican-backed plot against the regime. The coffee-colored colonel denied that there had been any conspiracy. He promised to return to Haiti. He also promised to restore the mulatto rule which Estimé's blacks had supplanted...
...Administration, which has been firing away merrily at the 80th Congress' labor policy ever since election day, finally met the heavy hitters in the opposition lineup when it took its campaign promises into committee a fortnight ago. The hearings have generated a great deal of heat in dispute over the two encyclopedia labor laws enacted in the past. But there are only two questions now completely adaptable to regulation on a national scale: The security of "national emergency" industries and the closed shop...
...Curtiss-Wright's new projects off to a flying start, Chairman Vaughan last fortnight hustled to England, reportedly to dicker for the U.S. rights on the De Havilland Aircraft Co. Ltd.'s gas turbine engine...
While the prices of other commodities tumbled (see The Economy), the price of wool kept going up & up. At Australian auctions a fortnight ago, fine wool which had sold in 1946 for around 65? a Ib. brought a record price of $2.42¼. Last week, at the Newcastle auctions, it shot up to $2.76¼, and in Tasmania superfine wool went up to $3.53. Reason: a complete change in the world wool supply...