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With the help of such come-ons, U.S. toy sellers hope to push sales well over half-billion mark this year, the highest ever. Among the huge assortment of new and ingenious toys are dolls that speak Spanish and French, dolls that say "Mama" when tilted one way and "Papa" when tilted the other, dolls that clap their hands, suck their thumbs, wet their pants ; dolls that sleep, smile or screw up their faces and bawl ("Hedy the Three-Faced Doll"). There are miniature race horses called "Phony Ponies," which are powered by Mexican jumping beans, cows that...
...Dominion's depleted supply. But if they should decide that the stock was dangerously low, they could start a run by stepping up their orders of U.S. goods, and getting U.S. dollars from Canadian banks to pay the bills. Ottawa's view is that with a half-billion loan in the kitty, Canadian businessmen would not start the run, and little of the loan would have to be used...
...hunger in Europe today [TIME, April 1]. Conway ate well in black market restaurants in England, France, and Italy. He was never so well fed in America since Pearl Harbor, he reports; therefore, no one starves in Europe. . . . Is this what complacent America wants to hear, while a half-billion people starve...
Emperor Hirohito, with a half-billion yen of his own invested in stocks and bonds and 140,000 of 300,000 available shares of the Bank of Japan, is an interested member of this tribe...
...great hurricane of 1938 had burst upon the coast almost without warning, killed 500 people, and left a half-billion dollar litter of wreckage behind. But the meteorologists of 1944 had sharpened their science in war, and the radio and the press had forewarned people in the hurricane's path...