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...demands were met within the time limit, the U.S. would "determine its course in the light of the evidence then secured and the efforts of the Yugoslav Government to right the wrong done." If not-and this was a letdown-the U.S. would "call upon the Security Council of the United Nations to meet promptly and to take appropriate action...
...crazily exaggerated build-up [which] led. . . to the inevitable 'letdown' after the tests. . . . The Navy's safety precautions for the first test were almost ridiculously overdone Pseudo-scientists and in a few cases reputable scientists . . . made some astounding and wholly unscientific predictions" and the press lapped them...
...Office of Tourism hopefully announced that the season was in full swing. But the opening's aftermath was a sorry letdown. Last week, liveried flunkies and white-tied M.C.s stood at their posts in the Casino, ready to bow like diplomats; but on the ballroom's vast parquet just one couple did their stuff and only a few new-rich lingered over the green baize tables. In the main, Deauville had reverted to its 5,000 year-round inhabitants...
...mere milestone. Their town had developed massive productivity and prosperity in the war years. Now it was still booming along. It had had a tremendous expansion-at the wartime peak employment .was up 99% over 1939's. Unlike many a war-factory town, Cleveland had suffered no serious letdown. Employment had snapped back and was still climbing-it was well over 155% of the prewar rate. If there had been no national strikes, Greater Cleveland's industries by now would be employing many more than the 225,000 they...
...letdown from war had been mental as well as physical. Warnings of world famine got lost, somehow, in plans for vacations. For four years the Government had handled the nation's global thinking; undoubtedly it would handle the famine -if one really threatened...