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...Winston soothes France,"said an eight-column banner in London's Daily Express. The Prime Minister's two-day visit to Paris last week was plainly designed to allay French fears before he set sail on the Queen Mary this week for his first official trip to the U.S. since the war. He wanted to assure his political next-door neighbor, French Premier Rene Pleven, that he would make no deals with the Americans which left France out in the cold. And he made it plain that Britain's refusal to join a Western Europe economic...
...length of his stay in England. He knew very well that a visitor who stays longer than six months in Britain must pay full British income tax (in 1947 the rate was 45%, plus surtax on incomes over $8,000. At 10 a.m. on Dec. 2, after an anxious two-day delay, he had himself flown out of England on a stretcher. Wilkie thought he had beaten the tax collector, but Britain's revenue men grabbed him, demanded...
...rounds among his 300,000 employees. Describing a forthcoming trip to a subsidiary, Fairless says: "I'll be met at the plane by the president. We'll go to my hotel, and next morning start visiting the plants. There are six plants, so it's a two-day job. So I'll be met again the next morning, and by this time the group may have grown to 25 or so, with a few vice presidents. But in the plant the officers will step aside; it's the foremen's show...
...passed-out couple with more salty dog (a mixture of gin, grapefruit juice and salt). About 10 p.m., a brunette bounded on to the coffee table, in a limited striptease. At 2 a.m., when the party broke up, one carload of youngsters decided to take off on a two-day drive into Mexico (they got there all right, and sent back picture postcards to the folks...
Contributions to the Combined Charities Drive yesterday the second day of the campaign, totaled $8,708.50. Monday's donations amounted to $8,171. The two-day total is $16,879.50, which is only about $200 less than last years grand total...