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Port Arthur will become a Russian naval base-but the Chinese navy, when there is one, will have access to it; civil administration of the port will be Chinese. Russia gets the use of another port, Dairen, on equal terms with China; the harbor master will be a Russian...
Rationing: On & Off. To speed civilian access to goods and services, Boss Snyder's master plan called for an end to rationing as quickly as possible. The picture: ¶ Immediate lifting of gasoline rationing, but not of fuel oil which is still short. ¶ Continuance of automobile and tire purchase controls-for a short time. ¶ Canned goods off the ration lists at once. There will be more food, but meat rationing will probably continue for months. Shortage of sugar, fats and oils will mean continued rationing. (The Army will cut its food demands about one-fifth, will live...
Through its unofficial link with G.M., and with expected cooperation from other industries, the Institute will have quick access to all industrial discoveries having a bearing on cancer. G.M., for example, has developed an excellent infrared spectroscope, a device cancer workers use in identifying chemicals. For the future it is a reasonable assumption that the chemical industry will perfect the extraction of new artificially radioactive substances (of hundreds of possible ones only about 30 have been tried...
...Free access to the world's news - one of the basic issues between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. - came up in three forms at the Potsdam conference...
...Poland, Rumania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Finland, the communiqué by no means insured free access to the Russian-dominated zone. The Russians themselves, with a fundamentally different conception of the role of the press, had only a handful of Tass men in the Balkans. Nor could they understand why the U.S. and British governments had transmitted applications for scores of reporters to enter the area. U.S.-Russian understanding on a free press was still unfinished business...