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...deputy director of the Office of International Trade. Just before the party ended, the exporters got a press release. It tersely announced that the program which they had been discussing was being reinforced by a drastic new program, effective March 1. From that date on, said the release, every shipment to Europe, Russia and a dozen other areas (about 50% of U.S. exports) would require a license. Though it was the most drastic reimposition of Government controls since war's end, there were no more details for the surprised exporters...
Striking bread and butter from University menus on December 19, resulted in a shipment of over 1,500 pounds of wheat and 300 pounds of butter, said Guentter Mattersdorf '48, one of the student leaders of the S. S. Friend Ship drive...
...England's hit parade for 23 weeks. London Records decided that the song was just what they were looking for to crash the rich U.S. record market. Last week 24,000 records (weighing six tons) of Gracie Fields's version arrived in Manhattan, the biggest shipment of foreign records ever to hit the U.S. Gracie wouldn't have the place to herself. Bing Crosby, Kate Smith and Eddy Howard all managed to put the song on records before Jimmy Petrillo, by putting a stop to all U.S. recording, got off his own variation...
...Vancouver, Commy agitators who had no connection with shipping succeeded in delaying another shipment of 630 tons of ammunition. Before it could be loaded on the Pakistan-owned freighter Colima, 100 pickets (many from the University of British Columbia), led by avowed Communists, paraded past the pier with signs reading: "Students say no arms to Fascists," and "Load bread, not bullets, on the Colima." Anti-Communist labor leaders in Vancouver and Ottawa forced the meddlesome Reds to back down and withdraw their pickets. But the Colima had overrun her charter date for loading the cargo, and Chinese officials...
...wheat saved in University dining halls today in the AVC sponsored plan will be shipped to Scotland aboard a Christmas relief vessel. Financial contributions to the shipment may be addressed to the S. S. Yankee Friendship, Boston Chamber of Commerce...