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...protest was hardly necessary. The White House was aware of the report's explosive political contents. It had temporarily withdrawn the report after issuing it a fortnight ago. Last week Defense Secretary Forrestal dryly pointed out that the report was not "a pattern for legislative action . . . and does not, at this stage, constitute military establishment policy...
Time for a Protest. For a fortnight the city's two police forces had been seizing vehicles from each other. Last week the Communist police chief sued to recover an automobile which, he said, the West Berlin police chief had wrongfully impounded. Germans noted the disappearance of several men who worked on the West Berlin force but lived in the Soviet sector. The Red cops raided black marketeers near the sector line, and when some of the fleeing Germans scrambled across it, the police followed. West Berlin police and Allied MPs appeared and ordered the invaders back; they complied...
Princess Margaret, 18, faced her first trip outside the Empire next fortnight: a hop to Amsterdam, where she would officially represent her folks at Juliana's investiture...
...were moving into export channels." Commerce had discovered that exporters seemed to be shipping more cast-iron water closets (which require no export license) than manufacturers were making, suspected that many of them were really shipping vitreous china water closets (which, being in "tight supply," do require licenses). Last fortnight's raid clinched it. "Really," said a Commerce official "there has been a hell of a big leak...
Standard, the fattest of the dozen-odd transcontinental wildcats, started three years ago with just two converted C-47s and $90,000 of borrowed capital. Now it has eight DC-3s and $300,000 in assets, has never had a crackup. A fortnight ago Wildcatter Weiss got a chance to purr: because of a boycott of New York International (Idlewild) Airport by domestic airlines, the airport management hired Standard to fly Governor Thomas E. Dewey to Idlewild for the dedication ceremonies. Last week Weiss asked the Civil Aeronautics Board to certify Standard as a scheduled carrier, said frankly that...