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Export-eager Great Britain was out first with plans for another World's Fair. In London last week, the British Government announced that "no money or effort" would be spared to guarantee that it "will surpass any previous international event of the same character." Probable date: 1951, centenary of London's great exhibition for which Prince Albert had the famed Crystal Palace built in Hyde Park...
...German heavy industry was to be cut to approximately one-half of its 1938 level. The manufacture of synthetic gasoline, rubber, ball bearings, radio transmitters, heavy machine tools and many another war-important product was banned altogether. But manufacturers of ceramics, glass and bicycles would be encouraged to surpass prewar records. Germany would not be starved, but it would be reduced to its 1932 standard of life...
...only one of England's finest lyric poets, but also one of the three or four great classical scholars of our time. His scholarly notes, reviews, letters and conversation contained a deftness of wit which Pope could hardly equal, and blasts of virulence which Swift could hardly surpass. But the anniversary chiefly celebrates Housman's poetry. Why has it been so much loved, by so many; and how, after 50 years, does it stand...
Tonight's game will provide Wyndol Gray with an opportunity to surpass the season scoring record of N.Y.U.'s Sid Tanenbaum. Both players now stand at 269 points for the season, Gray after 14 games and Tanenbaum after 20. The sprained ankle which kept him out of four games has, however, probably put Tony Lavelli's record of 320 points just beyond reach...
Without mentioning the atomic bomb, Stalin promised that Soviet scientists would "not only catch up with but . . . surpass" those abroad. He stressed the role of industry in war, proclaimed that the new five-year plan must work toward production increases big enough "to guarantee our country against any eventuality...