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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...terms with Indonesia's republicans. Britain's Foreign Secretary, heavy-footed Ernest Bevin, and France's wispy Robert Schuman met with Acheson and agreed with unexpected rapidity that a Western German government must be set up promptly, a decision that had been stalled for months in lower-level talks...
Although, to the Western scientist, the technical side of production may seem easy, it is enormously difficult to the larger part of the world. Throughout Asia, Africa and large parts of Latin America, production and living standards are dangerously lower than in the U.S. and Western Europe. As India's Sir Ramaswami Mudaliar put it during M.I.T.'s panel on "The Problem of Underdeveloped Areas": "Here are great areas that can fall victim to communism, for what better material for communism is there than people who cannot even sustain themselves...
Philip Wylie, raucous critic of contemporary U.S. folkways (Generation of Vipers, An Essay on Morals), had thought up the title for his new book: Opus 21; Descriptive Music for the Lower Kinsey Epoch of the Atomic Age-A Concerto for a One-Man Band-Six Arias for Soap Opera-Fugues, Anthems and Barrelhouse...
...currently quoted in over-the-counter trading at $600 to $650) 16 for 1. Tiffany's shares, which paid $35 in dividends last year, were split once before (in 1920) at 5 to 1; in the last 20 years they have sold as high as $3,200, never lower than about $200. The new split will bring them down to around $40, enabling present holders, when faced with inheritance or income-tax problems, to sell them more readily...
...slash brought the list price of the lowest-priced model, the Kaiser special, to $1,995-a drop of $333. The smallest reduction was $198 on the Frazer. The company said that "starting up" costs had been absorbed and that steel end auto parts were now available at lower prices...