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David Ben-Gurion, who carries beneath the wild halo of his white hair great visions but little patience for political compromise, has ruled the country with difficulty. To satisfy the Jewish Orthodox bloc in his cabinet he accepted the virtual prohibition of civil marriages, the import of pork, the use of public buses on the Sabbath. But when the Orthodox faction demanded that education in the immigrant camps be turned over to the rabbis, Socialist "B.G." exploded, sought new elections. He hoped to win an absolute majority for his Mapai party (ideological twin of the British Labor party) which held...
...that job, Larson, an Oklahoma-born lawyer and World War II artillery colonel, has proved that he has resourcefulness and shrewd bargaining ability. Last December, when natural rubber soared to 78? a lb., Larson took over the buying of all U.S. rubber imports, then resold the rubber to private industry at a loss. By so doing, he drove the import price down to its present 46? a lb., but Larson is selling to industry at 52? until the Government's loss on the purchases is recovered, As head of DMPA, Larson will be responsible to Charlie Wilson for finding...
...import-export business in Osaka...
...Import needed alloy minerals duty free...
...experience of over 30 years in the motion-picture industry," writes Mayer, "the American people have had plenty of opportunities to support [good] pictures and almost invariably have failed to do so. Although I have helped to import many of the finest pictures ever brought into this country, I was able to ... only because I was simultaneously operating [Manhattan's] Rialto Theater, which consistently showed the worst. The profits on the bad pictures enabled me to stand the losses on the good ones. Most of the critics of the industry are optimists, because they only write and speak about...