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...bosses were furious, astonished. Even victorious France and Britain were maintaining stiff controls to ration their meager austerity. From existing legal supplies each West German could expect to get one pair of shorts every 18 years, one pair of socks every 29 years, a suit every 98 years. "How dare you relax our rationing system when you have a shortage of goods?" raged one officer. Replied Erhard jubilantly: "I have not relaxed rationing; I have abolished it." To his countrymen he proclaimed: "The only ration ticket now is the mark." He asked for an interview with U.S. General Lucius Clay...
...Generation. American scientists have verified most of the meager information coming from the Russians, but many believe that the whole story has not been told. One bit of news from Russia backs this suspicion. Soviet Scientist Yury Dmitrievich Boulanger said on the Moscow radio that the sputnik was radioing information about its encounters with micro-meteors. If so, it is probably making other observations...
Orval spent a lifetime clawing his way up so that he would not be looked down on. He found what he wanted in politics. For years he bounced from one meager job to another: country schoolteacher, itinerant farm hand, lumberjack. He ran for local offices (circuit clerk and recorder) and won, later wangled an appointment as postmaster. In 1948 he helped throw Madison County to liberal Sid McMath, who was elected governor. McMath named him to the nonsalary state highway commission, later responded to a Faubus plea ("I'm broke. I need a payin' job") by making...
...wisp of gas will offer colonists on the moon no shelter from solar X rays, meteors or other unpleasant features of space. If the earth's atmosphere were compressed to the density of steel, it would form an armor plating 49 in. thick, but the moon's meager atmosphere, compressed in the same way, would be only one-millionth as thick as the thinnest soap-bubble film...
Even with the 40% increase in pay ordered by the government last year, the workers of Generalissimo Francisco Fran co's Spain remained the most meanly paid in Western Europe (average: $1.60 a day). When price rises quickly wiped out those meager gains, Franco's regime prepared for new labor trouble this fall, at the end of vacation season. Snapped Lieut. General Alonso Vega, boss of all Spanish police: "The sooner the better." Last week the trouble came, and Dictator Franco and his police were ready for it. In the ever-restless industrial center of Bilbao, scene...