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Prior to yesterday's move, the 18-girl Council had agreed to restrict temporary political groups in the Yard to a six-month span of activity, in anticipation of a quick November fadeaway...
...welcome mat for U.S. businessmen was put out by Bizonia last week. The Joint Export-Import Agency, which directs foreign trade for the U.S.-British occupation economy, upped the period foreign businessmen are allowed to stay from 15 to 30 days during any six-month period. It also promised them comfortable hotels, good food, taxis, and help in bartering with the Germans. The businessmen can send in food and raw materials in return for finished or semi-manufactured goods...
...airmen contended that those trained under U.M.T. would be practically worthless as combatants in a technological war. To this, many a Ground Force and Navy officer would say amen. General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, although he has never said so publicly, has been quoted as saying that the six-month basic training period contemplated under U.M.T. would be valuable chiefly as a character and health builder; that as training for a modern war it would be largely valueless. The airmen contended that the money, time and effort could much better be spent on combat aircraft and in the training...
Listeners in Europe, Africa, and the Far East have affirmed that the six-month old program, written and presented by students, has been a major source of growing world-wide familiarity with the activities and functions...
British producers pointed out that because of Hollywood's six-month supply of films in Britain, the tax would not accomplish its purpose of immediately easing the drain on Britain's dollars. By the time it got around to doing so, they feared that the British film industry might be the real loser. Most cinemoguls on both sides of the Atlantic felt that the tax was mainly a bargaining point which Britain had readied for this week's conference on relaxing the terms of its loan from...