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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Limited Victory. In Moscow, the Russians had agreed to lift the blockade if the Russian mark were accepted as Berlin's only money. The Russians might use their currency as an effective weapon to conquer Berlin in the long run-depending partly on just how the men around the table settled the details. The U.S. had originally demanded that the Big Four "control" the Berlin currency. It was likely, however, that the U.S. would give in on the issue of four-power currency "control," settle for currency "supervision," whatever that might turn out to mean in practice...
President Elpido Quirino had $2,000,000 to use for the social welfare of the pesty Hukbalahaps if they behaved themselves. Instead the Huks broke out in new rebellion against the government and clashed with the army at several points north of Manila...
...examiners recommended "frequent use and renewal of the toothbrush." They expressed no preference between natural bristles and nylon bristles (80% of all toothbrushes are now nylon). The argument of natural v. nylon bristles is still raging among dentists; other researchers are busy with tests to find out which bristles cause least damage to enamel...
...discovery may lead to a better understanding of a number of diseases in which fat is not burned normally: jaundice, hardening of the arteries, a liver disease called infectious hepatitis. There is also tentative evidence that cancer cells use fat abnormally...
...contained a new provision that would intensify the shortage. Companies with military orders can henceforth be allocated steel to fill those orders even though they may already have enough steel on hand. The House Small Business Committee insisted on this provision, so that little companies would not have to use up their slim inventories on military orders. But they would probably get less steel for consumer goods anyway; in the scramble for the shrinking supply of non-allocated steel, mills were apt to serve their biggest customers first...