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File & Remember. In Shanghai, perplexed municipal authorities asked the Ministry of the Interior how to explain on census forms the family status of concubines. The prompt answer: write it in under "Noted for future reference...
...Bracken's letter, and hundreds of others like it, came to us as a result of our putting TIME back on a prompt delivery schedule to the British Isles. For four long years our readers there have stuck by us through one of the most miserable delivery schedules on record. Owing to wartime exchange restrictions, we could send only 3,077 copies of TIME to Britain...
...firm line of the Western powers had cleared the air before the Council met. The prompt U.S. and British refusal to grant the UNO postponement Russia had requested, coming hard on Byrnes's and Churchill's candid speeches, left Moscow in no doubt that the West meant business...
...said Bowles, that the 18½?-an-hour steel increase is to be the pattern for U.S. industry. Nor does it mean that a wage boost, alone, is enough to get a corresponding boost in price ceilings. But the policy did mean, he said, that companies can now get prompt price relief if 1) they have been squeezed into the red by rising wages and low ceilings or 2) a forecast of earnings indicates that profits will fall below the 1936-39 period...
Said Bowles cheerfully: "[The new policy] means quicker settlement of wage problems. It means prompt price relief where hardship exists. . . . It means that the way is cleared for all-out production." What was more to the point, he finally admitted what businessmen have been wearily saying: OPA's cost absorption policy has reached its limits in many an industry, including household furniture, low-cost clothing and household appliances...