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...Federation," which is already organized among the Thais who live inside South China. This grouping is designed to embrace 1,100,000 Laotians and 3,700,000 Cambodians (many of Thai stock), in addition to the 19 million Thais of Thailand. As such, it would make a handsome Red jewel to set beside a Viet Nam run by Ho Chi Minh...
...watchmakers also pressured Congressmen to urge the President to uphold the Tariff Commission. Two years ago, the Tariff Commission had recommended a similar increase, but President Truman turned it down on the ground that the U.S. watch industry was in no real danger from Swiss competition. But now domestic jewel-watch production is off (an estimated 1,600,000 units this year, or half 1951 production), and employment has slumped from 12,000 in 1945 to some 8,000. Says Hamilton's President Arthur Sinkler: "The decline in domestic watch production has been so rapid in recent years that...
Political Peril. The President's decision on one current tariff case-the $58 million annual trade in Swiss watches and movements-will directly affect one Republican Senator up for reelection, Massachusetts' Leverett Saltonstall, who has several watchmaking companies in his state. The Swiss make17-jewel movements for around $4, less than half the U.S. production costs, and outsell American makers nearly 4 to 1 (8,600,000 to 2,300,000 annually...
...early season comments, Penn's coach criticized his crew's timing. "We are a big crew," said Burke, "but Penn is not a 21-Jewel piece of precision mechanism." He might also have pointed out that his eight is one of the strongest rowing this season...
...trophy collection is no exception.* There are the famed "Crusaders' Sword," which the city of London presented to General Eisenhower at the London Guildhall; an ancient Japanese sword with the imperial chrysanthemum on the scabbard, a gift of the men of the ist Cavalry Division; the jewel-encrusted, $300.000 sword of Wilhelmina, from The Netherlands; Marshal Zhukov's personal dagger; and ceremonial swords and daggers from a dozen other countries...