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...unique in history because it had "a definite terminal date . . . the arrival of the next harvest." That was probable, but by no means certain. This present crisis could only be met by reducing the stocks of the surplus countries. If 1946 harvests were plentiful or even up to the prewar norm, the world would get through to the 1947 harvest, although at a lower level of subsistence than before the war. (Strange as it seemed, after all the killing, there were 100 million more people in the world in 1946 than in 1939; 35 million of them were in India...
Unlike Japan's prewar popular songs, which were languidly minor key and stickily sentimental, Song of the Apple was as sprightly as a hit from a U.S. college musical. It was written for Japan's first postwar movie, Soyokaze (Gentle Breeze), by Hachiro Sato and Tadashi Manjome, the Rodgers & Hammerstein of Japan's Tin Pan Alley. Lyricist Sato, a paunchy little Jap with a luxuriant ebony mustache, is Japan's Edgar Guest, turns out 50 homey verses a month for newspapers and radio. He wrote Song of the Apple before breakfast one morning in bed, after...
...Export federations" - nonprofit trade cooperatives in the U.S. newspaper, magazine, radio, book, and cinema industries - to watch over the quality of exported information. Purpose: to correct the "prewar ratio of 200 True Confessions to every Harper's available abroad...
Yale last week opened its ivy-covered doors wider to accommodate some of the thousands who knocked there. The University announced that it would increase its fall enrollment a whopping 54% over its prewar average (to 8,000). More than half will be veterans...
...average, metropolitan matrons bought an Easter bonnet for $25, double the prewar price, a $70 suit (rounded at the shoulders, narrow at the waist, wide at the hips), a $15 white blouse (lacy and fluffy), a $15 pair of shoes, a $5 pair of gloves, a $25 handbag and $25 worth of miscellaneous frippery...