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...mild Mr. Attlee's-journey to the U.S.-his fourth in four years but his first as Prime Minister-seemed highly necesary. Apathy, mistrust and confusion hung over the relations between the Allied powers. The happy agreements on generalities at Potsdam had been blown sky-high by the failure in London. The way to make a fresh start seemed to be through Anglo-American understanding...
...bill, brotherly love and production soared and sang at Cleveland's bountiful, brash Jack & Heintz, Inc., makers of plane equipment. Associates (employes) luxuriated in hot showers and Turkish baths, cheek by jowl with pink-jowled President William S. Jack, got free insurance and Florida vacations. Out of their sky-high wages ($5,000 a year and up) they gratefully sank $15,000,000 in preferred stock in Jahco to finance a still rosier postwar future. But peace and cutbacks brought trouble to this production paradise. By last week Jahco's eight plants, two still owned by the Defense...
...seventh, the biggest chance for the Stahl charges to really got ahead was blown sky-high. They got the bases loaded with nobody out, and couldn't squeeze across even one run. Eckenroth singled, Carlton walked, and Bucek beat out a bunt to third; but Davis fanned, Forte added his bit by forcing Eckenroth at home, and Pierce, pinch-hitting for Roche, couldn't do much better than the rest by looking at a third strike...
...over Japan were being lost on the way home. Dumbo rescue planes could save most of the men who hit the water between Iwo and Saipan, but could recover almost none from the freezing water between Tokyo and Iwo. Morale and combat efficiency among B-29 crews are sky-high nowadays; it was not so in the months before last March...
...Army went diligently to work to stamp out this lucrative trade. But its curative measures were no match for the economic pressure which caused it. Like most other recently liberated lands, the Philippines are in the grip of a wild inflation; stolen Army goods bring the same sky-high prices they had brought in France...