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Anger over such enormous inroads into the $700-million-a-year U.S. market bid fair to outweigh the anger fishermen and boat owners felt toward each other. The Atlantic Fishermen's Union (A.F.L.) had struck for higher wages and a 60% share of the sale of the catch. The companies, disgusted with 58 strikes and work stoppages in four and a half years, stubbornly shook their heads, talked of selling their boats to foreign nations, buying the catch at one cent a pound below Boston prices. But at week's end, best bet was that labor and management...
...Lise Meitner, the Austrian Jewish woman scientist who developed the formula that broke open the atom. Many of your readers, no doubt, will be nominating Roosevelt or Truman or Stalin, and each of these is a worthy choice, but Dr. Meitner's contribution, I believe, will far outweigh the contributions that the others have made. For, as TIME has repeatedly pointed out, this is the atomic age, and the bomb will play a tremendous part in deciding whether the world of the future will have peace or war. Roosevelt and Stalin with Churchill won the war; Truman and Stalin...
When the United Nations convene in April to revise the original Dumbarton Oaks proposals, these considerations may outweigh the right of veto retained by the Big Powers. Everyone in San Francisco will know that, anyhow, whatever the rules, no nation could be made to declare war on itself...
...Vargas] has promised to restore representative government after the war. To many Brazilians, these promises do not outweigh what they see as an unnecessary blackout of democratic rights inside Brazil, in the name of a war to free the world from democracy's would-be destroyers...
Last month South Africa's Jan Christiaan Smuts bespoke a deep-seated British fear that: 1) Russia will be "the colossus of Europe"; 2) Russia and the U.S. between them may well outweigh Britain in the postwar world; 3) Britain herself will be impoverished and endangered by victory (TIME...