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COFFEE CRISIS in Brazil, brought on by a slump in U.S. buying (down 50% from last year to 2,000,000 sacks for the July-September quarter), may prompt economic retaliation against the U.S. In three months Brazil's monthly dollar surplus has tumbled from $40 to $14 million, forced President João Café Filho to consider import curbs on U.S. products...
...crews. As a result, despite subsidies, many shippers feel they can save money by placing orders for new vessels in German and Japanese shipyards (TIME, May 17). The present Maritime Board is trying to win the confidence of shippers not only through its new program but also by the prompt payment of back subsidies. In 1953, for example, the Government had subsidy claims dating back to 1947, was paying them off at the rate of only $20 million a year. In fiscal 1954 the board paid off $85 million in subsidies, much of the amount past due, and next year...
Some doctors, citing Kuboyama's bad liver, apparently questioned whether radiation had been the cause of death. But the cause was officially announced as "radiation disease." U.S. Ambassador John Allison issued a prompt statement of "extreme sorrow" and presented the dead fisherman's widow with a check for 1,000,000 yen ($2,777). But twinges of anti-U.S. sentiment flickered across the islands; delegations of tuna fishermen marched up and down before Japan's Foreign Ministry demanding an immediate halt of U.S. H-bomb tests, and scores of protesting Japanese paraded on foot...
COPPER STRIKE, which idled 33,000 workers, may prompt Attorney General Herbert Brownell to crack down soon on the Communist-led International Union of Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers under the new anti-Communist...
...Researchers at Michigan State Health Laboratories and doctors in Mexico re ported a new antibiotic, Synnematin, as a prompt and effective cure for typhoid fever. Hitherto. Chloromycetin had been by far the best drug against typhoid. ¶ Britain's Medical Press suggested a new feature of social medicine. "The house wife . . . cannot present her husband with a medical certificate and take a few weeks' sick leave; she has to carry on ... until she is literally unable to stagger around the house." Since a woman could use sick pay to hire help while she got a rest, the journal...