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Their sponsor was a blue-eyed New Jersey manufacturer named Victor Bator, who had been chased out of Hungary in 1940 by the Nazis, and had built up a prosperous electrical insulating business. Along with Louis Szanto, Virginia tobacco grower, and John F. Montgomery, prewar U.S. minister to Hungary, Bator put up about $100,000 to buy Népszava (circ. 23,000) from its Polish-American owners. The new owners will fight Communism at home & abroad, plug ECA and try to keep alive the idea of a free Danubian federation. They hope to double circulation among Hungarians...
Scrap. Japan, a big prewar buyer of U.S. steel scrap, offered to sell some postwar scrap. Through the New York trade office of SCAP (Supreme Commander for Allied Powers), the Japanese Board of Trade offered 137,000 metric tons of steel and scrap to the highest U.S. bidders...
...Tour was under way again-that great annual pilgrimage which almost since the Revolution has led Americans back to Europe at the command of fashion, war or undefined nostalgia. Well over 200,000 Americans were expected to go to Europe this summer, nearly on a par with the best prewar years, and as many as the reduced Atlantic fleet could carry. Ships of all sizes and registries were booked to capacity, and on the vastly expanded airlines space was going fast. Europe feverishly offered up its beauties in exchange for dollars, announced special rations to keep well-fed Americans well...
They exchanged some grim statistics: the height and weight of traditionally healthy Finnish children are 10% to 15% below prewar average; the average weight of Yugoslav children is down 24%. In Italy alone, 2,000,000 children need extra rations, 220,000 have eye-destroying trachoma. Only 30% of Austria's children can be considered healthy; in Poland, 30% of the children under seven have rickets; 90% of Rumanian children have bad teeth. Tuberculosis, hunger's fellow traveler, is up everywhere: 1% of Europe's children have active tuberculosis, two-thirds of them are tuberculin positives. Among...
True, the prewar species of pedagogical prude will insure peace of mind to local citizenry often uneasy at the prospect of women residing in the Yard. Even the introduction of a physical culture course for school marms can scarcely be expected to make Sargent girls out of secondary school teachers...