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...every dollar France gets in U.S. aid, she now spends 75? to import coal from the U.S. at ruinously expensive prices. Coal that costs $10 a ton in Pennsylvania sells for $22 a ton in Europe, after shipping costs are added...
...German output for export (mainly to France), French steelmen complain that Ruhr shipments of coke and coal have fallen by 25% since 1949. And German nationalists are whipping up resentment against compulsory coal exports: they accuse the Allies of sending Ruhr coal abroad, and compelling Germany to import more expensive U.S. coal...
...Korean war. NPA will continue its ban on white sidewall tires (to save natural rubber and titanium-dioxide pigments), and inventories of synthetic will be policed to prevent hoarding. But U.S. manufacturers will get all the synthetic rubber they need, and once again will be allowed to import natural liquid rubber...
Like Britain, Japan must import raw materials from which to fashion exports. And, like Britain, Japan cannot earn enough dollars with her exports to pay for her imports. Before the Korean war, Japan was on the ragged edge of bankruptcy. Since the war, Japanese businessmen have reaped huge profits from more than $500 million in U.N. orders (e.g., freight cars, transportation services, repairs to U.N. tanks, planes, ships and artillery pieces). They have enjoyed the profits without assuming the responsibilities...
...What we would like to see is an end to the warfare over educational methods. All the methods are useful. The textbook should be supplemented with the field trip; the ukase from the platform should be tested by the experiment in the laboratory . . . But of what import are the various methods of learning if learning itself has no substance, no corpus of laws, no end? The business of American educators is to seek to establish the nature of man and the universe, and to make a valiant try at formulating the laws that govern each . . . Certainty may elude...