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...Nova Scotia-born, law-trained Minister of Finance James Lorimer Ilsley it was no surprise that on Sept. i clothing prices had crept up 17%, food prices 24% above pre-war levels. (U.S. rises 7% and 18% in the same period.) Minister Ilsley and his special board of consulting economists had an eye out for just such inflationary storm warnings, had a storm cellar ready. This month they laid their economic plans before Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King and his full Cabinet...
...last time that the MARCH OF TIME was heard was in 1939, in a pre-war world. In a decade of confused and strident changes it dramatized episodes of mankind's disjointed hopes, disgusts and the comedy of the time. Always edited and produced by TIME, although at certain periods co-sponsored by Wrigley, Remington Rand and Servel (Electrolux), it developed a new radio technique since employed by many another radio program. The summer of 1939 ended it as it ended a decade...
Though its pre-war staff of 100 foreign correspondents is much depleted, the Times still has the best foreign coverage in Britain. Paper restrictions have forced circulation reduction from 203,000 (prewar) to 167,000. But demand is far above that, despite a price increase from tuppence to threepence. Although it once printed a quarter-million words an issue, the Times, now paper-rationed to ten pages, does not complain of paper rationing. But privately, of course, Timesmen see little sense, or justice, in the fact that the Times, which is in a class by itself, should be rationed...
...became an ardent imperialist, wrote "an epoch-making memorandum on colonization and sea power." As anonymous as the Nazi emissaries of the pre-war days, von Ribbentrop or Otto Abetz, Father Joseph wandered about Europe, apparently a poor itinerant, actually the center of a power government, whose designs on its neighbors he furthered through countless contacts and intrigues...
...there is a reason for intervention--a reason for this pre-war campaign which has been vexing us for an entire year! It lies in the fact that the imperialistic interests of this country are coincident with the imperialistic interests of the British Empire, and those who profit from these interests want them protected. We shall know some day that his war is an imperialistic war. Those of us who are old enough to have experienced the last war, remember how that war, like this war was enshrouded in noble talk about democracy, and liberty, and saving civilization, and ending...