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After eight years of gathering and verifying statistics, the city fathers of Frankfurt (prewar pop. 550,000) counted the cost of the war that Hitler started. Between 1939-45, reported the municipal bureau of vital statistics, 14,701 Frankfurt men were killed in action (64% on the Russian front); 5,000 more are listed as "missing in action," but of these, 75% are almost certainly dead...
Fine Tolerances. As soon as Daimler-Benz was making money again, it went out to recapture its old racing honors. In 1952, it sent the powerful, speedy 300 SL to Brescia for Italy's famed Mille Miglia (1,000-mile race). Along went a famed prewar Mercedes figure, vat-sized Alfred Neubauer, 62, pit boss in the 1930s. Neubauer, who wears two stop watches about his neck and likes to keep a cooling case of Munich beer close by, had lost none of his cunning. Under his split-second training, crews changed tires and refueled the Mercedes...
Western Europe, and Japan too, are hag-ridden with fears that their hard-won recovery might be crushed between the Iron Curtain and a U.S. tariff wall. Since V-J day, Western Europe, encouraged by the U.S., has increased its productive capacity well above prewar; at the same time, its traditional markets, notably in Russia and China, have all but disappeared. In 1953, Dutchmen, French and Germans sell Eastern Europe barely one-half, and buy only a quarter, of what they did in 1938. Japan's trade with the Chinese mainland, which accounted for 21% of all Japanese foreign...
...basis of prewar army records, Korean soldiers do not bear much resemblance to a field that is white unto a chaplain's harvest. About 1.6% are Confucianists, 1.2% Buddhists, 4.6% Christians (mostly Presbyterians), and 92.6% are without any religious affiliation at all. But with the war came demands for the consolations of religion, and no chaplains to fill them. It was 1951 before a ROK chaplaincy corps was organized under the guidance of two veteran missionaries, Methodist Dr. William E. Shaw and Roman Catholic Monsignor George M. Carroll...
...Austria, the board of film reviewers in Graz banned, to children under 16, Metroscopix, a prewar, Hollywood-made 3-D shocker. The picture, a short containing horror sequences, the board ruled, would cause "emotional and nervous shock to young people, and thereby constitutionally endanger their health." M-G-M will take the case to the Austrian constitutional court, argue that the censors' job is to protect youth against immorality, not to protect their nerves...