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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Made cautious and cannier by previous backfires, Harry Truman last week showed what he could do to bring the Army & Navy together on the merger issue. By good generalship, unwonted tact and better tactics he brought his warring legions into line...
...part of his plan to take occupation troops out of all European countries but Germany, Byrnes renewed his request that Austria (see FOREIGN NEWS) be placed on the agenda. Molotov modified his previous position by agreeing. Austria would be discussed at the end of the meeting...
...knockabout days of previous conferences, when Laborites could take carefree pokes at the Tories and each other, were past. The rank & file of British Labor now heard their party leaders, doubling as British Cabinet ministers, report on ten months in office. Though the delegates sometimes cheered at embarrassing moments, though they sometimes rumbled disapproval, though they censured their leaders on minor points, in general they fell in line with the Executive Committee's policy and gave a whopping vote of confidence. The old Labor leaders were firmly in the saddle...
Researchers, who have fumbled and bumbled for lack of an effective technique, can now "do an experiment a day instead of two a year," according to Dr. Dubos. They can also diagnose new TB cases, where X rays are useless, in a few days instead of two months. Previous methods of cultivating the bacteria were not only slow but they usually modified the organism so as to make the experiments inconclusive...
Student donations between September 1, 1945 and June 1, 1946, amounted to $11,033.85, which was added to a previous balance...