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...special train last week backed into geranium-decked Union Station at Savannah, Ga. Out piled delegates from 34 member nations of the Bretton Woods Fund and Bank. The town, still smarting from Lady Astor's recent wisecrack (see PEOPLE) had washed its face for the occasion, turned out en masse to cheer the delegates...
President Truman sent a message to Savannah calling on the delegates to "breathe life" into the infant organizations. But monetary experts are not notably lively or gregarious. Spanish-speaking Negro bellboy Ben White introduced the lonely first-comer, Bolivia's Dr. Franklin Antezana Paz, to the lonely second-comer, Arturo Maschke Tornero of Chile. The two Latins warmly embraced. Latin American delegations were soon buzzing that they, as much as the war-scarred nations of Europe, expect a good slice of Bank funds for industrial development...
Lady Astor revised a simile, between visits to Savannah. She had compared the city to a "beautiful lady with a dirty face." Then Savannah cleaned up. Now, said she, it looked like a lady with not a curlpaper out of place...
...time last week 80,000 workers were on strike, including 5,000 at the Crosley Corp. in Cincinnati, 7,500 at the Southeastern Shipbuilding Corp. in Savannah. There were 40 work stoppages throughout the nation; new ones threatened daily as the old ones ended. Even the oldtime prewar gags to attract picket-line attention reappeared - in Hollywood, of course...
...average there had been a passenger-carrying plane over the Atlantic every six minutes. At New York, Miami, Washington, Bradley Field, Conn., and Hunter Field (near Savannah), Ga., as many as 100 aircraft turned up in a single flight. Proudly the A.A.F. pointed to its safety record: only three bombers had been lost; not one life had been lost in the A.T.C.'s transporting of 67,200 troops. Naval craft of three nations (U.S., Britain and Brazil) patrolled the three routes (via Iceland and Newfoundland; via the Azores; via Natal, Brazil, and the Caribbean). They were a chain...