Word: grains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well-heeled pauper. Reason: the world's dollar crisis. As the U.S.'s best customer, the Dominion needs a whopping supply of U.S. dollars to keep her economy going. Traditionally, she earned some of the dollars by selling in the U.S. and the balance by selling such surpluses as grain and timber to Britain and the rest of the world. Because of the dollar shortage, Britain and many another customer have slashed their purchases in Canada, and have thus ripped apart the historic pattern of Canadian trade. This week, three Canadian cabinet ministers are in Washington for the U.S.-British...
...Comic Abe Burrows and Playwright-Director George S. Kaufman (The Man Who Came to Dinner, You Can't Take It With You) for permanent panel members. Right from the start it became embarrassingly clear that the problems of most entertainers could be solved more readily with a grain of aspirin than with a pound of prosy counsel. On the opening show, Bandleader Artie Shaw departed from his script to remark: "My problem is that I haven't any problem...
Farmers who strolled into a machinery exhibit at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines last week stopped and stared. Nestled between a shiny red cultivator and a new Ford tractor was a stock and grain brokerage office. A Trans-Lux projector flashed ticker tape reports from the New York Stock Exchange and Chicago's Board of Trade; two salesmen chalked up stock quotations and commodity prices on a big blackboard...
Only a few British Laborites found a grain of comfort in what they heard from the U.S. They thought that there was political capital to be made from the crisis, even suggested the possibility of a quick general election this November. Explained one Labor M.P.: "A bit of American stonewalling, and we would go to the country with a dramatic clarion call to rally round retrenchment and reform rather than knuckle under to the dollar...
...JAMES A. GRAIN Geneva, Switzerland...