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...thing nobody relished was the idea of trying to slap controls, patterned on WPB and OPA, on some segments of the U.S. economy. Controls have a horrid sound in a free economy. Yet it became clear that the U.S. was going to have a painful time giving Europe long-haul help. Without controls, it might be impossible to extract adequate amounts of the things Europe needed most-e.g., grains and steel -from an economy in which these items were already none too plentiful...
...projected 1,030-mile pipeline from the Abqaiq field in Saudi Arabia through Trans-Jordan, Syria and Lebanon to the Mediterranean port of Sidon (TIME, March 24). When completed by 1949, the 30-to-31-inch line - world's biggest - will eliminate the present 3,650-mile tanker haul from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean. Trans-Arabian, affiliate of the Arabian-American Oil Co., will spend $125 million on construction, expects that the line will initially carry some 300,000 barrels of crude...
Watts and Hayes hooked ropes onto the box, started to haul it out. The rope slipped and Hayes went in to refasten it. Middleton raised his whistle to warn people in nearby buildings. The bomb went off. What was left of Hayes and Watts was buried under the collapsed stone building. Middleton's body was blown through a barbed wire barrier and across the Street of the Prophets. His police whistle was still in his mouth...
...three growing boys. In the British zone, a Ruhr miner washes his coal-streaked body in the daylight after eight hours' work underground, then sets out for the countryside to trade some clothes for bread. In the French zone a winegrower watches police break into his garage. They haul out ten cases of wine which he had set aside to sell to an American for cigarets...
...Tanglewood season should produce a varied and expertly-presented program for the music-lover. It's a long haul from Cambridge, taking even the most inspired driver about four hours, but the Cambridge-worn student could hardly find a better place to forget the heat than here where Dr. Koussevitzky and his staff have accomplished a musical miracle for America's youth...