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Last week in Berlin, Russell Nixon, acting U.S. member of the German External Property Commission, charged the State Department with trying to "hamstring" EPC's efforts to trace, freeze, and seize German-owned foreign property. State's denials were as sweeping and spirited as Nixon's charges...
Mantrap No. 2. But the biggest job of organization is not the bringing together of brick and mortar. It is the far more complicated matter of bringing together management and labor. A growing series of strikes, particularly a steel strike, would hamstring production.
Most manufacturers will be eager to get back into peacetime business. Most have reserves to pay for the actual costs of the changeover. But is there going to be enough prospective profit to speed production after the changeover? That was the issue raised last week by the National Industrial Conference...
Heavy bombers from Britain tried to hamstring the push by attacks on the supply railheads at Cologne, Coblenz and Mainz. While SHAEF clamped a blackout on the exact locations of the fighting, Berlin claimed major breakthroughs and progress in Luxembourg and Belgium.
Out Cartel. Britain's tall, lean-jawed Lord Swinton had steadfastly plumped for the all-powerful authority to fix plane rates, routes, and passenger and cargo quotas-in effect, he wanted to cartelize postwar air transport. Otherwise, Britain feared that the sky-filling transport fleet of the U.S. would...