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...trustee of Taft School, an active member of several YMCA boards and committees, Fran Pratt has a personal interest in education that exactly fits his additional duties as director of our work with hundreds of schools, colleges and universities, which use TIME'S material for teaching purposes, with clubs and forums using special material for studying and discussing world problems, and with individual requests from educators...
...Asked a one-year's extension of his wartime powers to control the export and domestic use of critical raw materials...
...appropriations committee tore a $383 million chunk out of the Agriculture Department's budget. Funds for the school-lunch program, crop insurance, the land-use and conservation program were sharply sliced. The appropriation for insurance of farm-tenant mortgages was cut from $15 million to $1,000,000. Secretary of Agriculture Anderson wailed that the cut (32%) would deprive veterans of the money needed to start farming, deprive small farmers of subsistence loans, destroy the price support of perishable farm products...
Helicopter manufacturers were not too much disheartened by the accidents. President Larry Bell of Bell Aircraft pointed out that airplanes are 43 years old; helicopters are only nine. They are already useful for "specialized assignments such as crop dusting, mapping, rescue. . . ." Better design and accumulating experience, Bell believes, "will hasten the time of wide public use...
...current worry of the Administration was not military but economic strength. Strategic use of economic power was the way the Administration intended to wage the conflict with Communism. To that end the Administration had asked for aid to Greece and Turkey, and for $350 million for foreign relief. With these token forces the Administration could make cautious advances into positions on the economic front. Those positions could gradually be stabilized. But last week the front cracked right in its center. Germany faced a new food crisis (see FOREIGN NEWS...