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...were tired of night sessions, tired of each other and dead tired of Majority Leader Scott Lucas' heavyhanded efforts to keep things moving. The nation's highest deliberative body was debating whether to extend ECA for 15 months. Oregon's Wayne Morse, always one of the quickest to anger, rose in shrill complaint...
Last week Parliament was bickering about the surest and quickest way to teach midwives analgesia (relief of pain without complete loss of consciousness). There are still 7,000 out of 17,000 practicing British midwives who have had no such training. A bill to require midwives to learn analgesia within four years has been backed by Labor's red-haired Leah Manning. Mrs. Manning's argument: "If some doctors had a labor ward of men to look after, I think it highly probable that for the defense of their sanity they would give their patients something more than...
...found South Africa's economy, based primarily on its gold-mining industry, in deep trouble and short of dollars. Gold sales looked like the quickest solution. What disturbed the Fund more than the first sale was Havenga's apparent determination to make additional premium sales. If Havenga got away with it, there was no reason why other gold-producing countries, notably Canada, could not do the same thing...
...King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia was in trouble. The war had cut off the annual Moslem pilgrimages to Mecca, a prime source of his revenue. Ibn Saud needed cash, and he thought the quickest way to get it was to ask Arabian American Oil Co., which held the rich Saudi Arabian oil concession, to fork over an extra $6,000,000 a year. Aramco balked. But in far-off New York was a man who thought he could fix things...
...officers are both incompetent and dishonest. Therefore, to turn the tide of the war in China, Bullitt said, requires American direction and control, exercised by "a fighting general of the highest qualities, with an adequate staff of able officers." He thought that General Douglas MacArthur could do the job quickest. But he also mentioned as prospects, General Mark W. Clark, and Lieut. Generals Albert C. Wedemeyer and J. Lawton Collins. He called for the revival of the volunteer "Flying Tigers," and urged Congress to appropriate $800,000,000 for China, chiefly in military...