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...schedule of new transatlantic air fares drawn up by the International Air Transport Association last February became a scrap of paper last week. The Civil Aeronautics Board, which has the final word for U.S. airlines, refused to approve...
...pressure behind the underground was recognized this week by the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on Palestine. After three months of study in the U.S., Europe and the Near East, the twelve-man committee recommended, in effect, a new policy that would scrap the 1939 British White Paper. Salient points: 1) the immediate admission of 100,000 Eufopean Jews into Palestine; 2) Jewish D.P.s are a responsibility of all the nations; 3) terrorism by Jews or Arabs must be sternly repressed...
...lifted and with production of civilian goods at an all-time high, 12 more months of price control would assure an orderly distribution of new goods at existing prices. The twin battles of production and inflation are nearly won, yet manufacturers and farmers, in their greed, are willing to scrap national safety and welfare in a frantic last minute rush for profits...
Endlessly, actors as well as actresses paraded in satins, velvets, delicate lace, period gold & silver brocades. In one scene Actress Roy used 60 yards of diaphanous veils to conceal none of her charms. For three years the Folies bought, rescued, hoarded every scrap of material, fur, feathers and jewelry it could lay its hands...
...only way into the scrap that the Service News could find was a review of the book by F. O. Matthiessen, professor of History and Literature, and chairman of the committee of Cersorship of the civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts Professor Matthiessen reviewed "Strange Fruit," saying that it was "thoroughly shameful for such book to be banned in Boston at the very time when we need to examine every phase of our American race problems...