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...housing (one family in six still has to share with another), but Dutch housing is bedeviled by a shortage of building workers, by wage controls that destroy incentive, by cartels that keep material costs high, and by inequitable rent controls (rents have been allowed to go up 40% on prewar houses, while the cost of living has gone up 200% since 1939). Premier Drees' makeshift bill did little to overcome all this. In The Netherlands such difficulties are usually worked out discreetly among the big parties, the Laborites and Catholics, who sit together in the Cabinet (along with...
...expected "leveling off" in steel and autos may have already begun. As of the middle of May, although new cars were still selling well, dealers had about 750,000 new cars on hand, the biggest backlog since prewar days. While current orders from automakers remain strong, demand is expected to slip soon. However, with nonauto steel buying continuing to increase, the steel industry is looking for no real slump in demand...
...quarter alone, West Germany built 62 ocean-going ships totaling 244,000 tons, now has another 281 ships grossing 793,608 tons under construction. Though 40 % of the tonnage is for foreign owners, Germany hopes to have 3,000,000 tons afloat by 1956, some three-quarters of its prewar tonnage...
...local Coke concessionaire), and, like Coca-Cola Tycoon James Farley, he has a fondness for green furniture and carpets. Phibun, a devout Buddhist, was born on a Wednesday, and green is the lucky color for Wednesday's children in Thailand. (One of his prewar decrees made dancing compulsory in government offices on Wednesday afternoons.) A canny politician, he is an un-Thaipically lively, dynamic leader of a languid, gentle people...
...shaped table. There were the bemedaled Generals Montgomery and Alexander, who had led great armies under Winston Churchill's direction during World War II. There was quiet, modest Clem Attlee, his longtime colleague and longtime opponent. There, gracious and smiling, was the widow of Neville Chamberlain, the prewar Prime Minister whose errors Churchill redeemed but never condemned. There, still patient and distinguished with years and honors in his own right, was the Churchillian heir apparent, Sir Anthony Eden, and his 34-year-old wife, Churchill's niece Clarissa. There, along with the beautiful young Queen to whom...