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...rayon fortune, was elected to Parlia ment at 26. He promoted the Education Act of 1944, which overhauled schooling in England and Wales, and as a result, he became Britain's first Minister of Education. Butler is a spokesman for the party's aggressive "young Turks." Lord Woolton, 68, the florid, white-haired department-store tycoon and campaign organizer for the Tories -Lord President of the Council, with special responsibilities for food and agriculture. Tories call him "Uncle Fred" the Laborites call him "Uncle Woof-Woof" -in both cases behind his back. As Brit ain's wartime...
While the Allied High Commissioners and Chancellor Konrad Adenauer dickered, Soviet puppets kept new sideshows going in East Germany. Wilhelm Pieck, East German President, returned from six weeks in Moscow. East Germany took honey, soap and rayon off the ration list, and Propaganda Boss Gerhart Eisler cooed his "deep regrets" that West Germans wouldn't be able to enjoy the same privileges until unification-though the fact is that such rations are no problem in West Germany. East German Premier Otto Grotewohl announced an amnesty for 20,000 prisoners (crimes unspecified, presumably political...
...Lord McGowan and Du Pont had gone too far in restricting competition. It filed an antitrust action against the two (plus Du Pont's subsidiary, Remington Arms), charging that they had conspired to restrain trade by splitting up markets for a list of goods ranging from Cellophane and rayon to insecticides and synthetic rubber...
...brought down to the mines by power launches. With a new mine abuilding in Bay Ste. Elaine, La., Freeport will boost its yearly output well over 2,000,000 tons a year (Texas Gulf Sulphur leads the world with 3,200,000 tons). With the demand for newsprint, fertilizer, rayon and other sulphur-users soaring year by year, Williams and Whitney see no limits to their future markets...
...strike was the fact that it will soon put the U.S., supplier of 50% of the world's sulphur, in a position to whip one of the world's most critical shortages. Sulphur, vital to the production of everything from explosives and steel to newsprint and rayon, is as essential to industry as salt is to food. While the U.S. is now producing 6,000,000 tons a year, the world demand is now running 1,000,000 tons a year ahead of the total world supply of 11,700,000 tons. The new source, plus...