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...Belgians, therefore, agree to grant the Italians the necessary exchange to buy Belgian goods. Then EGA in Washington reimburses the Belgians with an equivalent grant in ECAid. Thus the U.S. dollar works "twice"-for the Belgians, and through them for the Italians. This device has released some 810 million U.S. dollars of intra-European trade...
...Communist Victor Kravchenlco won satisfaction of a sort from the pro-Communist Paris weekly Les Lettres Françaises, which had charged that he never wrote I Chose Freedom and that it was full of lies anyway. Victor sued for three million francs ($10,000). After weeks of lurid courtroom charges and countercharges, the judge ordered the weekly to pay the court a 15,000-franc ($50) fine, pay Kravchenko 150,000 francs ($500) damages, and print the court decision on its front page...
...public, delighted with DDT, kept right on spraying closets, beds, kitchens and household pets. Whole communities were engulfed in artificially created DDT fogs. Gardeners and dairy farmers found it a quick means of destroying insect pests. By 1947, the manufacture of DDT .had boomed into a $30 million industry...
...years, Washington's $12 million Folger Shakespeare Library-the world's best-has sat in the shadow of the Library of Congress, attracting sightseers and scholars. Last week its custodians broke the hush of the folios and the quartos by giving Shakespeare a production...
Come On Over. Last week everyone this side of the Iron Curtain was beckoning the tourists and reaching for the $500 million in Yankee dollars that the visitors would leave behind them. Everywhere, hotels were getting a sprucing-up, and red tape an unraveling (many countries- had abolished visas). If not yet back to prewar standards and costs, foreign travel was getting simple enough to be good fun again...