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...years [we] have lived in the fear of the Russians and from the charity of the Americans," he said. "Before such a spectacle we are listless, as if history would wait, as if we had time-decades and decades-to transform our mentality, to suppress our customs barriers, to abandon our national egotisms ... I have been astounded by the amount of talent that has been expended in this Assembly to explain that something could not be done." In particular he attacked Winston Churchill, who more than any man had set the idea of federation to rolling...
Canada last week set the Canadian dollar completely free. By cabinet decision, all foreign-exchange controls were abolished and Canada became the first controlled-currency country to abandon money restrictions imposed during and after World...
Show of Hands. This year, frosts, long dry spells and labor shortages had caused farmers to abandon acreage, and that threw the estimate off. Many a farmer had also exaggerated the size of his planting, feeling that if acreage controls were put on again, 1951 might be used as a base year. In Chicago last week, at the annual convention of the American Farm Bureau Federation, cotton farmers complained bitterly. But Georgia Farm Bureau President Harry Wingate quieted them down. He asked how many farmers had sent in the area estimates from, which the Crop Reporting Board got its total...
...museum's vaulted ceiling, and Alexander Archipenko's Figure, an enormous 14-ft. object of aluminum-painted iron which resembled an upended torpedo. The pleasantest of the pure abstractions was David Smith's lively Flight, which whisked round corners, took unexpected dips with the carefully tracked abandon of a rollercoaster...
...Ford Foundation. The trouble with European industry, said Hoffman, is that productivity is too low and competition is hamstrung. Hoffman said that the U.S. doesn't want to tell Europe how to run its business, but if Europe wants to step up its output, perhaps it "should abandon the highly civilized competition that prevails in most of your countries in favor of the very uncomfortable form of competition that we have . . . The degree of your shift will determine the extent of your improvement...