Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General Motors is as worried about Ford's impending wage settlement as it is about U.A.W.'s demands. If Ford settles, G.M. will be faced with the alternatives of making a somewhat similar agreement or starting out on a protracted strike. Last week Detroit buzzed with another report: that Young Henry Ford had sat down to dinner at the Detroit Athletic Club with G.M.'s Wilson and Chrysler's K. T. Keller to discuss the possibility of a united front against U.A.W.'s demands...
...message alerted Jap forces to be ready to go to war when they received a weather report with the words "East Wind, Rain ; East Wind, Rain." Then that very weather report, so the story goes, was intercepted by the U.S. on Dec. 4. But, as best as can now be learned, all the files which would show such intercepted messages are missing...
...satisfied with the job UNRRA was doing already, U.S. Representatives voted to give the huge relief agency still another job. The House approved a $550 million appropriation for UNRRA, but attached a string: the money could be spent only in countries which granted the U.S. press full freedom to report UNRRA doings...
From G.I.s to generals, U.S. military men were fed up with the occupation. General Eisenhower's September report, released last week, reflected this feeling and took a critical view of Allied cooperation. The Russians, who like Eisenhower and understand candor, became more cooperative immediately after the report was published. In a subsequent letter to President Truman, Eisenhower proposed that military occupation in the U.S. zone be replaced by civilian control as soon as possible. Truman agreed. Redeployment had so thinned the occupying force that it lacked enough experienced men for direct control of the German people. The next phase...
Steel and Friendship. U.S. Economist Calvin Hoover's recent recommendation that Germany be allowed to keep much of her heavy industry had an unexpected effect. When the U.S. press denounced the Hoover report, the Russians realized the extent of U.S. sentiment for a "hard" peace. In the subsequent efforts to set a temporary level for annual German steel production, the Russians and Americans finally agreed on eight million tons; the British held out for twelve million. The row brought the U.S. and Russian representatives on the Allied Control Council closer together than they had been in weeks. The British...