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...Ottawa's cavernous Union Station, where he arrived with Canada's own homecoming Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, Clem Attlee shook the hands of nearly 100 welcome-bent dignitaries while bagpipes tootled Cock o' the North. Then he strode down a red carpet into three hectic days...
Even the worldly San Franciscans were impressed by the hot shopping pace of UNCIO's 7,000 delegates, secretaries, wives, correspondents and observers. Last week, with retail trade back to its hectic-enough wartime normal, businessmen figured that the conference had dropped $10 million into their cash registers in 63 days...
...took the Big Five twelve hectic San Francisco days to agree on an interpretation of the Yalta veto formula (TIME, June 18). In just half that time they made the Little Forty-five take-but not like-the Big Power version. The accompanying scrap gave San Francisco its liveliest week, portrayed world attitudes and worries in plain folks' language...
...Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp. yard on the muddy "Singing River" at Pascagoula, Miss., where 11,000 men & women worked at 1943's hectic peak, only 8,000 worked this week. Within a year the last of the 73 big C-3 freighters for the United States Maritime Commission, and the special type craft for the Navy would be ready for delivery, and Ingalls' war work would be near its end. All this suited Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp. just fine...
...After a hectic meeting with his generals, the Führer had agreed to request an armistice...