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Like a hoarse echo from the prewar days, Indiana's stubborn William Jenner leaned against his back-row desk in the Senate chamber last week and shouted that the time had come for the U.S. to get out of Europe and stay out. "Spending in Europe is no longer needed," he cried. "This so-called bipartisan foreign policy . . . leaves the Republican Party and the American taxpayer holding...
...cost $12 to $28 a day, American plan, to stay at one of the bigger hotels in the Bermuda Hotel Assn. (president: Sir Howard Trott). This was less than Miami or Nassau charge, but far more than people paid in Bermuda's prewar horse & buggy days. Some of the fanciest price-boosting had occurred along Hamilton's staid Front and Queen Streets. Trimingham Bros, asked $24.24 for English flannel slacks that sold prewar...
Aside from actual playing experience the squad will pick up during vacation. Callahan doesn't rate the Bermuda week very highly. His main interest is building up the Rugby Club to its prewar strength, when it won the Eastern Rugby Union trophy cup three years...
Much of the crop had been grown, not for a booming market, but to cash in on the Government-supported price. At 32½? a lb., the support price was about 300% over prewar levels. Last year, in spite of falling demand, U.S. cotton growers had turned out the biggest crop (14.9 million bales) in eleven years, giving the U.S. a carryover of some 6,000,000 bales...
Fuller Lives. The American Military Government has spurred local people to take steadily increasing responsibility. Nagasaki's normal cheerfulness has been largely restored by giving personal needs priority over industrial recovery. Food is nearly up to prewar level, with one-seventh the supply provided by America. Department stores are well stocked, especially compared to Europe. Steady progress has been made toward rebuilding the destroyed 47% of the city's housing...