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...Briand's day, the economic argument for European federation was one of the strongest; since then its cogency had increased. Seventeen years ago economists knew that the European level of life was held down by the division of Europe into tiny fractions. In 1946, plain men everywhere knew it. Unless the standard of life in Europe rose, European civilization would not be possible. Anyone who doubted that could look at Europe's diet statistics, or, better, at such typically present-day European scenes as took place daily in Italy. As U.S. Army trucks carry garbage to dumps, Italians...
...United Nations shipping pool, greatest transportation enterprise in history, was breaking up. Seventeen seafaring nations, whose merchantmen had carried the war-winning cargoes, gathered this week in London to plan the demise of the United Maritime Authority (due to expire March 2) and decide what part of the common effort for war should be turned to the common tasks of reconstruction...
Second in importance only to the Security Council was the Economic and Social Council. Seventeen of the 18 seats were filled. For the last seat neither U.S.-backed New Zealand nor Russia-backed Yugoslavia gained the necessary two-thirds vote. New Zealand broke the jam by withdrawing in favor of Yugoslavia...
...question." Crater Lake was formed some 10,000 years ago, when 12,000-ft. Mt. Mazama blew its top. The eruption covered 5,000-odd square miles of Oregon with pumice six inches deep. Incandescent avalanches fried the Klamath Plateau for 25 miles around the vent. Seventeen cubic miles of rock were blasted to smithereens...
Then, at Chateauguay again, the Witnesses tried to hold another meeting. Again a mob (about 1,500) threw eggs, potatoes, tomatoes, cucumbers, stones. Witnesses who tried to get away were chased and pummeled. Seventeen Witnesses were arrested...