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...Economic Warfare, later as President of the Board of Trade. After the war, Clement Attlee made him Chancellor of the Exchequer, traditionally No. 2 post in the British Cabinet. Recently, as Sir Stafford Cripps towered into prominence as Britain's economic dictator, Dalton's own political stature shrank...
...ballyhoo had been a big force in wartime Washington. The final super-cargo-plane contract turned out to be for only three 200-ton craft. Kaiser lost interest in the scheme and later bowed out, muttering darkly about a "mysterious kiss-off." With Hughes on his own, the contract shrank to one plane which has never yet flown...
...under the heavy buying of the British and Irish, wholesale prices at public auctions in the Far East soared as much as 200%. U.S. companies held off, confident that their nine months' supply on hand would see them through the flurry. But prices stayed up and U.S. supplies shrank. U.S. companies had to start buying again...
...fell to the ground, a lyncher with a bowie knife prepared to cut off his head, despite the remonstrances of a horrified bystander (see cut). But as he died, the prophet had one more triumph; the sun blazed out, illuminating the jail yard, and the man with the knife shrank away...
...Hector A. Orta, a small, brown-faced Puerto Rican, walked into a Times Square subway station. There were only a dozen people in the echoing cavern, but one of them-a huge, slack-faced man-was drunk. As he reeled and mumbled, the rest watched him nervously. Suddenly they shrank back against the shiny, tile walls; the drunken man was twirling a revolver. He swung around, his eyes full of cunning, and threw his free arm around the neck of the man nearest to him-which happened to be Hector Orta. The big man pushed the revolver against the little...