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...partial return for such cultural legacies as Shakespeare's plays, the British Common Law and fish & chips, the U.S. has transmitted to Britain in recent years a passion for the 100%-American chocolate milk shake and double frosted. Last October, alarmed at this drift toward such dairy delights, Satirist Maurice Lane Norcott attempted to warn readers of the London Daily Mail against the perils involved. Plumbing the darkest depths of his imagination, he envisioned a Hollywood soft drink fountain in the heart of London and called it "Mother Moo-moo's Milk...
...foreground was an appalling unemployment problem. The chairman of Shanghai's General Labor Union in a report to party bosses had recently given the following partial breakdown of unemployment: construction workers, 31,000 (95%); cigarette factory workers, 30,000 (75%); wharf coolies, 10,000 (32%); merchant seamen, 20,000; shop & sales clerks, 20,000. He admitted widespread unemployment in the papermaking, matchmaking, silk-weaving, rubber and cotton textile industries. On the basis of these figures, Hong Kong observers reckoned that 600,000 people were close to starvation in Shanghai...
Bill Brooks, freshman swimming coach, will fly to Bermuda Thursday, where for the 15th summer he will be the official swimming coach. Partial duties include the direction of the International Swimming Week in which American swimmers, divers, and water polo teams will compete...
...brilliant modern's defense of his $3,000,000 project, quoted in this week's New York Times Magazine, was bound to strike some people as a partial admission of its faults. To enjoy the comforts of "functional" architecture, it seemed, the apartment dwellers would have to dispense with many old-fashioned comforts. Said Le Corbusier...
Worried by this muddled federal finance and by a partial government import ban designed to save foreign exchange, wealthy citizens began late last year to convert their pesos into dollars for investment in the U.S. This flight of capital was finally halted in February of this year after the U.S. restricted conversion of pesos into dollars by suspending the free convertibility clause of the Philippine Trade Act of 1946. But by then the Philippines' 1945 dollar reserve of $658 million had dropped to $220 million...