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...tailored William Pawley dropped in on Secretary Marshall. Bluntly, the U.S. Ambassador to Brazil told his boss that things were going badly in Latin America. The latinos were sore because they felt that the U.S. was neglecting them in favor of Europe, and something ought to be done to straighten things out before next month's Pan American Conference in Bogot...
...wish I could find a way of doing something to straighten out this world. I think if we all tried we could. Here's one who will at any rate. George A. Furness...
...would cost to build a new reservoir. So he tried bombing cumulus clouds with dry ice. But no rain fell. All that happened was that citizens started calling him "Old Rain-in-the Face" and an elderly constituent sternly advised him to "leave God's work alone and straighten out the traffic mess...
This summer, on his way from Rome back to Japan, Father Lassalle stopped off for two months in Brazil. A priest who had actually been in Japan during the war, and had been an eyewitness of Hiroshima (TIME, Feb. 11, 1946), should be able to straighten things...
Incidents like this, combined with the economic uncertainty that India's impending partition has produced, made it almost impossible to do business there. Nevertheless, Baker eventually managed to straighten out TLI's Indian affairs. In the future, readers in Indonesia and India, like TIME's growing audience of readers elsewhere overseas, will be receiving their copies of TIME within a few days of our distribution date...