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...last-minute effort to stave off a shortage worse than any of the war, the Office of Economic Stabilization boosted the sugar price, first time in five years. Next week, wholesalers will get an increase of .5? a lb.; the housewife will have to pay .7? more per lb. The increase will go directly into the pockets of Cuba's sugar-growers. For entirely proper reasons, they had refused to ship any sugar this year at the 1945 price of $3.10 per 100 lbs. f.o.b. Cuba...
...bill, introduced in Congress on Nov. 23, would add weight to their petition. Under its terms a bankrupt railroad whose average earnings for seven years have covered its fixed charges can be taken out of the courts, handed back to its stockholders. The Milwaukee's stockholders hoped to stave off approval of the reorganization until they had a chance of preserving their investment...
...President's plan was based on the Railway Labor Disputes Act, which has worked successfully to stave off labor trouble on the railroads for 19 years. It called for the establishment of a fact-finding commission-probably three members-who would investigate any major strike on the President's orders. The commission would have power to subpoena all books and records; it would report directly to the President...
...keeper of Bug Light, finally retired to salt-bleached solitude on an outer harbor island. By waterfront legend, he was one of the pirates who had ravaged the West Indies early in the 19th Century, had come to the U.S. from Canada after murdering a man with a barrel stave. The King died in 1882 without discussing the matter...
...highest praise to Mauldin, one of the great reporters of this war, whose efforts may conceivably help stave off future conflict...