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...long thought, would be reached if the reserves fell below ?500 million. Last week they stood at closer to ?400 million. To Cripps's many critics it looked as if the crisis was the final proof that his policies should be scrapped. They renewed their demands that Britain abandon bilateral deals and compete freely in a world market...
...been prepared by a cabal of naval extremists and at least one disgruntled aircraft manufacturer, Van Zandt wanted to know why the Air Force had fallen in love with the B-36, "in spite of the fact that its flying men, only a year ago, were ready to abandon Consolidated 8-363 on the ground that they were wholly unsatisfactory bombers...
Concluded Congress President Louis Harmel of France: "Let all owners and workers be known as Christians by the way they abandon class struggle egotism so that men will say, 'Look how they love each other...
Baseball Commissioner Albert Benjamin ("Happy") Chandler was not mad, just terribly hurt. The sportwriters had swung him around their heads with gay, unremitting abandon for his summary suspension of Leo Durocher over a Polo Grounds dust-up with a loudmouthed fan (TIME, May 9). In Cincinnati last week, Happy Chandler exonerated himself and "The Lip"-in that order...
...least disappointing to see the CRIMSON abandon its usual refreshing objectivity and print an item both unnecessary biased and viciously inaccurate. The snide treatment of the remarks of professors Aiken and Marne in the report of last night's peace Conference was an utterly uncalled-for distortion of both the form and the sense of those remarks. The complete, and apparently deliberate misconstruction of Prof. Fletcher's comments bore no vestige of either accuracy or integrity...