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Last week, newspaper "advertising acceptability" departments had more than their quota of headaches. One was Paul Blanshard's bestseller, American Freedom and Catholic Power, which attacks Roman Catholic doctrines and practices. The Chicago Daily News, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and the Minneapolis Star & Tribune advertising departments had printed ads for the Blanshard book. But the New York Times, which reviewed American Freedom as "news," refused to carry ads for the "controversial" book...
This week Britain made new proposals which, in effect, rejected Standard's plan. But at the same time Britain made its first retreat from the harsh terms of its original plan. It offered to let U.S. companies sell above the 9,000,000-ton (67.5 million barrels) quota provided they spent the additional dollars so earned in the sterling area. U.S. oilmen thought that too small a concession. To them, it still looked as if the British were trying to force the U.S. to make the world's oil market into one vast, noncompetitive cartel...
...land is denied such benefits as improved seeds, fertilizers, and easy credits. He cannot em ploy labor outside his family. If his resistance is especially fierce, he is classified as a "negative individual" and a kulak. He is driven to the wall by such devices as government production quotas deliberately made so high that he cannot fill them. Often he must give up his private holding because he has failed to meet a quota, or he may be sentenced to one, two or three years' imprisonment. The commissars boast: "We make great prog ress. By 1951 half the land...
...paid for in U.S. dollars, the U.S. took the view that it should be U.S. wheat, of which there is a surplus. Canadian spokesmen argued that the object of the wheat agreement was to restore normal world wheat trade, not provide dumping machinery for surpluses. Canada asked for a quota of between 20 and 30 million bushels...
...real British middle-class world of John Wallis seen through numerous flashbacks. Neither exploration is wholly successful. Wallis' purgatory, with its concentration-camp pall and forced pleasure-resort atmosphere is skillfully but too obviously contrived. Wallis' real-life experience, with its high quota of banal woman trouble, comes close to being boring...