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Besides playing in the Houses, the HTG will start a reading theatre, similar to the Dramatic Club's, which will present performances of rarely-seen plays. It also plans to import theatrical celebrities to talk on drama and to give the money earned thereby to the Theodore Spencer Memorial Fund...
Paul Hoffman, who for months has been asking Western Europe to lower import quotas, establish an effective intra-European payments plan and end dual pricing (TIME, Nov. 7 et seq.), believes that so far OEEC has done little more than pay lip service to his program. Europeans must get a move on toward working out economic integration, quit approaching that vital problem as though Europe had at least 28 years in which to solve it. The cold fact is that Europe has only 28 months...
...Waltham. Hagerty then left his $10,000 RFC job,, became Waltham's $30,000-a-year president - and the company hopefully reopened. But its ancient equipment and shopworn trade reputation were no match for other U.S. watchmakers and such U.S. companies as Bulova, Benrus and Longines-Wittnauer, which import watch movements from Switzerland...
...terms of manpower, Yugoslav industry is now producing more expensively than the same production would cost to import. The overall effort is based on a staggering program of self-sacrifice by the Yugoslav people. Like the Russian people, they were not consulted about the desirability of making the sacrifice. Many Yugoslavs resent it. Although some new factories, schools and offices have been built, what the average worker really sees ahead is a life of slavery for which he is not even beginning to receive compensation in the form of consumer goods...
...remarkable properties of high-grade sheet mica as an insulator make it invaluable as a strategic war material, where it is essential for radio tubes, radar equipment, condensers, airplane sparkplugs. But the U.S., the world's largest user of mica, produced only 135 tons in 1948, had to import another 10,000 tons, chiefly from Brazil and India...