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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said the FAO report: "1948 marked the ending of acute food scarcities in Europe ... A major rehabilitation in agriculture has been achieved." By 1951, the delegates predicted, most Europeans would be eating as much (though not quite so well) as they did before...
...Paris Foreign Ministers' conference last spring (TIME, June 27), it looked as though the Russians had finally agreed to an Austrian peace treaty-in exchange for Western concessions (e.g., $150 million reparations from Austria). But this month, when the ministers met again in New York (taking time out from the U.N. General Assembly), it appeared that, as usual, the Russians were trying to sell the same horse twice. The new Soviet price for an Austrian settlement included: ¶ Some 95% of Austrian oil output, 35% more than agreed upon at Paris. ¶ A large percentage of the rolling stock...
...Koch, though freed by the Americans, remained a free woman only for a few minutes. While she was still talking to newsmen, German police rearrested her and shipped her off to Aichach Prison, 25 miles away, to await a new war crimes trial before a German court. By the time she got to Aichach, she had recovered her good humor, gladly posed for another battery of photographers...
...best remaining Nationalist army on the mainland, some 200,000 troops under doughty General Pai Chung-hsi, who had screened Canton for six months, was retreating westward to the general's native province of Kwangsi. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had chosen Formosa for his own last stand, though there were reports that he had at last agreed to part with some silver and gold from his war chest for Chungking's defense...
...Wartime Rise. In a role that seemed sure to make enemies all around, Price Boss Gordon won friends by calmly explaining the need for controls in hundreds of speeches and press conferences, then firmly enforcing the policies that had been set to harness Canada's economy. Though labor and industry grumbled at his straitjacketing of wages and prices, the rise in the cost of living was only 18%, compared to a U.S. rise...