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...said yes to 1) a task force to study ways to stabilize the price of coffee, 2) another economic conference to meet in Buenos Aires in 1956, and 3) taking steps toward lessening the impact of double taxation so that U.S. capital will be encouraged to move southward...
Behind the issue was the widespread Australian fear, stated by Labor Leader Herbert Evatt, that "the southward expansion policy of Japan is gradually, being resumed." This month the Tokyo Giants baseball team called off its Australian tour, complaining that it was "virtually boycotted." Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies, trying to negotiate trade agreements with the Japanese Government, has frequently complained that "the greatest stumbling block is the perpetuation of enmity." Said Menzies wearily: "You only have to mention the word Japanese for it to be worth three headlines...
...Last Charge. The battle neared its end. The Communists regrouped and turned southward against Isabelle. Isabelle was ready. Its 13th Demi-Brigade...
...England, whose Yankee pride and pocketbook have been hurt of late by the southward migration of the textile industry, could boast of checking its downward economic trend. While 21,000 textile jobs in the area disappeared during the year, more than that number opened up in such new fields as electronics and light metals.Typical of New England's Yankee ingenuity in creating new jobs was the feat performed by the little town of Harmony, Me. Its 700 harmonious citizens contributed $22,000 to pay one-third the cost of a new shoe factory which will employ 120 people...
...Purring southward from Washington through a chill morning overcast, the presidential Constellation Columbine headed for Fort Benning, Ga., and landed. President Eisenhower and the First Lady, on their way to a six-day Thanksgiving vacation, had decided to pick up their son and his family at the Army camp where he is a battalion commander. Major John Eisenhower met the plane, but reminded his father of an old infantry tradition: a good officer eats holiday dinners with his men. He would stay until Thanksgiving afternoon, said the major. He bundled his wife Barbara, their three children and Skunky, their...