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...believe that certain well-meaning people are opposed to the installation of an international authority in the Ruhr because they see therein a possibility of bringing Russia into the West. 'The Russians are already on the Oder and on the Spree,' one of my British friends said to me the other day, 'Why do you need to bring them also on the Rhine?' "My reply is that without international control of the Ruhr there is no German disarmament. It is equally clear that everything which concerns German dis armament directly interests Russia...
Captain Johnny Rockwell led the attack in the first half scoring spree, as he hit the hoop for eleven points. Frank Lionette and Chuck Bryntesen helped out with seven and six tallies apiece, before Coach Berg called off the dogs and put in his second team. The spirited but outclassed Huntington squad did somewhat better against the subs, but their own inaccuracy from the floor cut down the score as much as the opposition play...
...prices had already begun. The break in stock and commodity markets could be explained in no other way. Nor could there be any other reason last month for one of the year's characteristic paradoxes: thousands of cut-price sales at the height of the greatest Christmas shopping spree in history. The real question was: How long and how bad would the decline...
...Washington, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that 1946 walkouts had cost the nation 107,475,000 man-days of work-a record loss. Nevertheless, beamed the Department of Commerce, the great U.S. consumer had gone on a record spending spree. His 1946 bill: $127 billion-$900 per person...
When it came to evening dresses, U.S. designers had gone on a spree. Necklines were down to the legal limit, tops were frankly lacy. Designs ranged from elaborate peacockery to sexy sheaths of black sequins, to puffs of lace topped with sparkling rhinestones...