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France would still have to increase its taxes and cut its public works spending to meet its budget. But the dollar pinch was over, and imports could be resumed. At week's end the franc was on the upswing: 438 to the dollar...
...vital exports have slumped disastrously, her overall trade balance is unfavorable, her gold and foreign-exchange assets have plunged below $500 million, her credit is poor, her currency has slumped to 28 pesos to the dollar on the free market (legal rate: 14), her people are feeling the pinch of inflation and are threatened with shortages of fuel, farm and industrial machinery, washing machines, electric stoves, rolling stock and newsprint...
...feels he is. Illegitimate son of a sporty Italo-American lawyer-millionaire and a destitute Kentucky belle, he spends his boyhood caroming around Europe. When he gets to the U.S. and Harvard Law School, the strain of being a "wop" makes him as sensitive as his bastardy. The pinch of his father's dwindling fortune makes him self-reliant, and his jumps through the rusty hoops of experience set up by Novelist Dos Passos make him a bore. Examples: Jay's first impotent foray into sex with a Greenwich Village "free love" addict; Jay seeing a friend...
John T. Flynn's latest book is an appropriate conclusion to the blindly partisan Congressional Investigations of our Asian policy. He whips up the theory that we "sold out" Asia China to the Reds, adds a pinch of pipe-dream, and seasons the dish with his own violent prejudices. The resulting book offers two hundred pages of emotional mincemeat...
...Pinch-Hitter. When the plant was finished, Ben talked General Manager Fred Griffiths into keeping him on as a field engineer. Ben knew little about steel, but a lot about baseball, and that knowledge came in handy. Ohio companies, rich with war profits, had organized the famed "outlaw" Midwest League, and were recruiting Big Leaguers for their teams. Fairless was given the job of rounding up a team, the "Agathons." He managed it so well-smoothing" over the constant squabbling of the stars-that the Agathons won the league pennant. Fred Griffiths, impressed by Fairless' peacemaking talents, threw...