Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Labor Relations Board (1940-45); in Chicago. Longtime chairman of the University of Chicago's Economics Department and a labor mediator for some 30 years, he was one of the first three NLRB members on its creation in 1934, gave the board a much-needed shaking-up and reform...
...Western powers started issuing last week in place of the billions of marks now clogging Western Germany's inflated, paralyzed economy. The rate of exchange would be announced later, but the Germans would probably get only one new mark for ten old ones. Anticipation of the currency reform started Germans on a frantic buying spree to get rid of their old money...
...cemetery plots; they even started paying old doctors' bills. Some people, like the oldster who lit his pipe with a 50-mark note last week, literally burned their money. Black-market prices soared: probably for the last time, one U.S. cigarette sold for 50 marks. After the reform, it was hoped, the cigarette-for three years Germany's generally accepted exchange medium-would again be something you smoked...
...Russians, of course, had refused to go along with the reform in their own zone. They put the event to their own use by halting all road and rail traffic into their zone, then set up the most rigid inspection yet for supply trains intended for western Berlin. At week's end the U.S. Army stopped supplying Berlin by rail rather than submit to the inspection. More clearly than ever before, Germany was partitioned...
...Plaza's victory was finally confirmed (the court would not give a final verdict for a month), Ecuador would get a bustling administration that would go slow on social reform, drive hard to put the country on a solid business basis. Moreover, Plaza has been around enough (he studied at the University of California, was ambassador to the U.S.) to know something about getting the foreign help that Ecuador desperately needs. If the court decides for Flor-well, Plaza might win anyhow. "If they try to deprive us of victory by such means," threatened a Plaza subaltern, "blood will...