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...Downward Spiral. The Potsdam agreement had provided that Germany be administered as an economic whole. But even at that time the Russians were running their zone along lines the Western powers could not accept. Rather than face up to the tough problem of coordinated administration, the U.S. and Britain half welcomed French obstructionism, which made unification impossible...
...occupation of Germany was costing U.S. taxpayers $1 billion a year and British taxpayers $300 million. There was no prospect of reducing that burden unless the British and Americans found a way of putting Germans to work. In the western zones, production was in a slow downward spiral which might become a rapid decline within six months. Some figures from the British-administered Ruhr told the story. On March 3 the average miner there was producing 2.76 tons of coal a day. On March 4, the British cut his rations by 15.5%. The miner's productivity dropped on March...
...Spiral Staircase. Speechless Dorothy McGuire is stalked by a horror who shall remain nameless (TIME...
...Johnston breezed into Atlantic City for the annual convention of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. One of the first things he did was to tell reporters: "It would be suicidal if price control was abolished immediately. . . . The worst thing that could happen to us would be for prices to spiral and for us to have a period of boom and bust." That afternoon, the Chamber gave its retiring president the back of its hand as it called for the end of all price control, except rent...
...Spiral Staircase. Dorothy Mc-Guire and the sinister party who stalks her (TIME...