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Smelling Salts. Dalton was proud of his surplus. It was not an actual one, but was represented by a windfall of ?292,000,000, largely from unspent wartime budgets. Surplus or not, there was no budget provision for retirement of Britain's $102,448,000,000 debt. But Dalton crowed: "I trust this [the surplus] will act as smelling salts under the noses of some of those . . . who have recently been showing signs of despondency over our financial future...
...Shanghai, prices are out of sight; dollars must be exchanged into Chinese at 1 to 12,000 (less 3% Government Bank commission), and unspent Chinese dollars cannot be changed back. Manila is still a rubble heap. Hong Kong is nearer normal than any Far Eastern city. Prices are well controlled. A hotel room costs only $2 to $3 a person. Singapore is smellier, more overcrowded than ever. But the famed Raffles Hotel is open again to tourists-although they may find it too quaint to be comfortable...
...Passed legislation canceling $7,194,682,459 in unspent war funds...
...Alexander Douglas Hume) directed the exhumation-from New York City's Tombs Prison. He had purloined $386,920 from the New York realty management firm for which he worked, then absconded. He was captured last spring at Victoria, extradited, convicted. At first he would not tell where his unspent loot was cached. But last week, facing a 20-year sentence, fortyish Ralph Wilby talked...
...Truman Committee. Its members had no power to act or order. But, using Congress's old prerogative to look, criticize and recommend, they had focused the strength of public opinion on the men who had the power. They had a fund of only $200,000 (some still unspent) only twelve investigators, 18 clerks and stenographers. But it was an obscure war plant that had never been visited by the committee. Its members had heard hundreds of witnesses, taken 4,000,000 words of testimony. With battle-royal impartiality, they had given thick ears and red faces to Cabinet members...