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...that, only the U.S. Government knew. But last week the Government took a big stride toward getting Allied news heard in Asia. Not waiting for the lately authorized shortwave station to be built in California, the Coordinator of Information bought General Electric's newest, finest, 100-kilo-watt transmitter (which has been operating under the call letters WGEO in Schenectady since September) for shipment to San Francisco.* There it will become a powerful partner of G.E.'s present 50-kilowatter, KGEI, in short-wave broadcasting across the Pacific...
London itself, however, clearly showed the scars of incessant bombing, Fulton stated, with scarcely a city block in the entire metropolitan area untouched. Four types of bombs, 50-250, and 500-kilo bombs, and a heavy land-mine which descends by parachute are being used in the attacks on London, he said...
Destruction of University College, its hospital, and most of the publishing-houses in London was reported by Fulton. However, both the British Museum and St. Paul's Cathedral escaped serious harm when 50-kilo bombs crashed through their roofs...
Good news in Moscow last week: since the first of the year butter has declined from 29 to 27 rubles per kilo; pork from 20 to 18; beef from 14 to n; men's suits from 425 to 220; and the better grade of women's woolen dresses from...
...Moscow last week the State bread stores' price to people with cards was 48 kopeks per kilo of black bread, one ruble for white. At this price Great Aristocrats (manual workers and Soviet officials) could buy 800 grams of bread per day, Small Aristocrats (white collar and professional folk) 400 grams. People without cards, such as loafers or priests, or Russians who had exhausted their card quota, paid last week in Moscow two rubles per kilo of black bread, three and a half rubles for white?or roughly four times the card prices. Often, especially outside Moscow, the cardless have...