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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Sir Stafford's report: "1948 was a year of great and steady progress." Britain is now paying with exports for 90% of her imports. She had reduced her overall trade deficit from ?630 million in 1947 to ?120 million. At year's end, she actually had a small surplus on hand, though, the report warned, it was not certain that the surplus had "come to stay." Within these overall trade figures, however, was Britain's trade with the dollar countries and her chronic dollar shortage. This problem '-Britain's most urgent-had also been...
...Statistics. These show, that in the years 1938-47, the real income after taxes of the British middle class* dropped 9%, while that of the working class rose 7%. To hold its part of the middle-class vote, the Labor government checked this trend in 1948, but the Oxford report expects it to be resumed: "The movement toward equality is quite noticeable," it concludes...
...over the Arabs' communities, where they now work Arab land, live in Arab houses and even use Arab cooking utensils. One such community is Akir, a village on the road between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, which TIME Correspondent John Luter visited last week. Here is Luter's report...
There was no doubt in the mind of the report's author, Dr. Kitty Kate Conrad, 39, mother of two. Said she: "Even when one has seen 300 or more confinements, as I have, the severity of labor pains comes as an intense surprise. They are more excruciating than anything you can possibly imagine. I am certainly in favor of spreading the use of relieving drugs in childbirth as widely as possible." But men are not the only ones who pooh-pooh birth pangs, according to Dr. Conrad. Among the toughest opponents of pain relief in Britain are midwives...
Wright, who will be spending his second summer at Salzburg, has been Chairman of the Committee on General Education since 1946 and was one of the authors of the report, "General Education in a Free Society...