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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, when U.S. Delegate Warren Austin warned that in Bulgaria, Albania and Yugoslavia U.N. might need force to pursue its investigation of Greek border violations, it was painfully apparent that U.N. had no force to use; the international police force was still not in being. So long as Russia insisted that it should be made up of equal contributions of troops from each of the Big Five, it was not likely to come into being; under the Soviet plan the U.S., Russian and British shares could be no larger than China...
...agreed last week to sell the Chinese Government 130 million rounds of surplus rifle ammunition. It had been made expressly for the Chinese Army's 7.92-mm. Mausers ("Generalissimo" model) in Lend-Lease days, but never delivered. For months it had rested in U.S. West Coast dumps, no use whatever to the U.S. Army...
...Use of plants as mineral "indicators" is still a new science. When it is further developed, a prospector will have to know botany as well as geology. For example, if he finds a plant called Amorpha canescens growing where little else grows, he will have a good hint that the rock beneath the roots is worth investigating for lead...
Because it seems to encourage free enterprise, the Parable of the Talents (Matthew 25) has long been a favorite text at businessmen's luncheons. In need of money for repairs, the First Presbyterian Church of Bluffton, Ohio thought up a more specific use for the parable. One way to collect the repair money, suggested Layman Eugene Benroth, might be by re-enacting the parable. One day last February, after borrowing 200 ten-dollar "talents," the Rev. E. N. Bigelow distributed them among his congregation...
...interest. Workers will contribute 2½% a year to the pension fund on earnings up to $3,000; over $3,000, payments will be 5%. The company's contribution will be approximately 17½% of the current payroll. To compute the benefits for past service, Ford agreed to use each worker's 1946 earnings, highest ever in peacetime, as the basis...