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...staggering set-back under the new plan, for Germany now retains 79 percent of its own mined coal and the Saar mines fall far short of the production needed to smelt down Alsace Lorraine ore. France must either pay $22 per ton for American coal or do without the fourteen million tons her industries lack this year. Meanwhile the wisdom of building up German industry at this time becomes increasingly doubtful as each new report comes in from Europe. Ruhr miners, on a 4,000 calorie per day diet, are only producing half their pre-war output, though Saar miners...
...Fourteen months after Test Baker (the underwater atom-bomb explosion), Bikini Atoll is safe for human settlers-if they don't stay more than a year. Such was the cautious word last week from two U.S. scientists, Drs. William H. Hamill and Russell R. Williams, Notre Dame chemistry professors...
...Fourteen more men advanced to the second round of the University singles tennis championships during the past week as summer athletics director Norman W. Fradd announced that Saturday would be the deadline for reporting second round matches...
...Fourteen people died in the leaping fire on the desert not far from the river Euphrates, near Meyadine, in Syria. Arabs helped Stewardess Bray and 21 other survivors of the wreck of the Pan American World Airways Eclipse, a four-motored Constellation that had left Karachi, India, a few hours before, bound for La-Guardia Field, New York...
...Harry S. Truman turns the alternatives over in his mind, election consideration without doubt will play an abnormally large part in the decision. Labor, in danger of losing the legal rights accumulated in the last fourteen years, has played this argument for all it is worth. Though Truman may not get a second term, even with labor's support, his party will have little chance murmuring a faint echo of the Republican song. But to come out strongly is to run a great political risk in a country that gives strong indications that it wants to return to the decepive...