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...this crisis is solved-and swearing in Truman did not solve it-will be of greater import to the world than Pearl Harbor, the onset of World War II, etc. Who is going to make Congress see the dynamite of rejecting Bretton Woods and cajole them into reasonableness (or have you failed to tell us good reasons why Congress should want to reject...
...whenever he could get them at bottom prices, and used them to tap new sources of traffic for the G.M. & N. In 1933 he leased the New Orleans Great Northern Railway Co., which soon gave him a line into New Orleans and a chance to bid for export-Si -import freight traffic. In 1940 Tigrett bought the Mobile & Ohio Railroad...
...delegates missed the import of the city's past, they would hardly miss the significance of San Francisco in 1945-metropolis, arsenal, base of vast Pacific air and sea communications. To men from weary countries the men & women on the quaint cable cars, on the city's automobile-lined streets would seem incredibly fresh, well-dressed, well-fed. The great shipyards around San Francisco Bay would launch another small fleet before they departed. And along the Embarcadero they would see Harry Bridges' longshoremen loading ships with tanks, guns, food and clothing by the endless trainload...
Minister Mendès-France skipped lightly over certain qualifying facts: Marseilles' tonnage is mostly for Allied military use; for almost two years before the 1946 harvest is in, the nation will have to import its bread. But France, tired of endless greys, welcomed the first rosy hues...
South Africa. Always a food importer, South Africa, because of drought at home, will need to import more than usual-just how much is not yet known-and ships to carry the food will have to be found...