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...instance, trade between Canada and Latin America has increased 1,000%. Whereas Canada's trade with Latin America was one-half of 1% of her total foreign commerce before the war, by 1946 it had jumped to 5.1%, and it is still growing. At present, Canada's largest single overseas investment is in Brazil...
...more waiting in awful suspense for the detonation of a German bomb. Just as they hoped, the big bang never came. In an operation as delicate as brain surgery, London's No. 2 Bomb Disposal Squad successfully took the the surface. The 2,775-lb. bomb was second largest ever dug up in London. Seven years ago during a bad raid its fuse had jammed as it tore through Mrs. Alfred Fry's kitchen, then buried itself 30 feet in the Stepney ground. At that time air-raid wardens laid the damage to an antiaircraft shell. Recently...
...salary was a big boost over Boudreau's 1948 pay of $52,000, and (according to Veeck) "by far the largest straight salary ever offered a player by the club."* But Lou had earned it with his spectacular triple performance-as the American League's best shortstop, its best hitter (.355) after Boston's Ted Williams, and manager of the league and world's champions. President Veeck threw in a handsome admission: "Sure, I tried to trade the guy off [in 1947]. But the fans wouldn't stand for it . . . So Boudreau made...
PERCY J. EBBOTT, 61, became president of Manhattan's Chase National Bank, third largest in the U.S.* He will share the chief executive duties with Board Chairman Winthrop W. Aldrich. Ebbott's predecessor, Arthur W. McCain, became vice chairman. A ruddy-faced, friendly Midwesterner, born in Fort Atkinson, Wis., Ebbott worked at sales and manufacturing before entering banking, has been a Chase vice president since...
...member Liberal Union delegation, largest at the convention, joined with a Boston University group to place two student members on the executive board...