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Home Industries. In Concord, N.H., the State Planning & Development Commission hastened to squelch some ugly rumors with a press release: "... There is no connection between New Hampshire's reputation as [an] outstanding ski state and the fact that [we make] 75% of all wooden crutches...
There is severe inflation in Japan, and a black market. Communist troublemaking in the unions forced MacArthur to squelch a general strike, later a communications strike. There is not enough shipping, and no visible way of getting large-scale shipbuilding started...
...Kremlin, through Pravda, squelch the plan to create another great Communist-dominated state? Partly because the Kremlin's bosses, as inheritors of Czarist foreign policy, did not want a revived and enlarged Austro-Hungarian empire; partly (and more important), from fear that their puppets might get out of hand. Party discipline inside the U.S.S.R. has been maintained for so long by police power that Moscow looks askance at Communists like Dimitrov and Tito who control police states of their...
Eliot's hockey minions cruised through the pre-dawn gloaming at the Skating Club yesterday to squelch previously undefeated Winthrop 6 to 2 and take the league lead. Johnny Gray banged in two counters for the winners...
...much had Russia accomplished by the great ruble reform (TIME, Dec. 22)? Ever since Lenin decreed the creation of a nonprofit society in Russia, peasants have made trouble and speculators have made profits. Last week, hard on the heels of a reform designed to squelch troublemakers and profitmakers, both were busy...