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...British crofters had sailed across Hudson Bay in 1814 and then portaged to the rich Red River Valley, agriculture has been king in Manitoba. The valley's rich, black velvety soil had been the magnet which drew colonists. They hugged the area close to the U.S. border, grew Canada's best grade wheat (No. 1 Manitoba Northern Hard) and other grains in enormous quantities...
...Ridge (Tenn.) High School, which grew up by the light of the atom bomb, had a visit from atomic chemist Charles Coryell one day last fall. He told the students: "Unless the atom bomb is controlled for peace, one out of three persons in this auditorium will probably die of the effects of atomic energy." The Oak Ridge school kids, soberly shocked, organized a Youth Council on the Atomic Crisis (which they promptly nicknamed...
...interest rates and a sellers' market, was in refinancing ($4.6 billion, a record). But new-money issues, nearly zero in wartime, when the Government paid the freight, started popping forth as soon as peace came to Europe, were blossoming thick & fast going into 1946. As the pastures grew green again in private financing, the volume of U.S. long-term Government issues faded off from a 1944 high of $52.4 to $47.3 billion...
...wartime embassy, the immense task of selling Britain to the U.S., and the U.S. and Britain to Russia-held no such terrors for Ambassador Winant. In high conference he was slow, sure, and overwhelmingly honest. After bombings he walked the streets of London, helping dig people out. The British grew to love his gaunt figure. He talked to them in trains, buses, subways, and ministries, and reported shrewdly to the President-whom most of the world thought of as the real U.S. Ambassador to Britain. To Britain's leaders, Winant plugged away relentlessly at his great theme: a democratic...
When the General's views got around, a hell-to-breakfast howl went up. Stars and Stripes alumni recalled a year-old legend: General Lee, like the late General Patton, had tried and failed to get Cartoonist Bill Mauldin's Willie & Joe (who grew up in Stars and Stripes) suppressed-or shaved. One old grad, Colonel Egbert White, fired a hot protest to Chief of Staff Eisenhower, called Lee's order " a drastic departure from the policies you established and supported." (In Paris, an officer once ordered Stars and Stripes to do something for the boys: print...