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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Communist Ho Chi Minh's army, after seven weeks of success, has the French forces in northern Indo-China bottled up around the cities of Hanoi and Haiphong. A full-scale attack is expected. Are the French strong enough to hold out? Seeking an answer to this and related questions, TIME'S London Bureau Chief Eric Gibbs flew into Hanoi last fortnight...
...calculated that a single sparrow destroys five to nine pounds of grain annually. Despite all our love for birds, this calls for countermeasures. The German Democratic Republic has therefore issued a police ordinance by which two to ten sparrows are to be destroyed on every hectare of land." In answer, the West Berlin Kurier told its readers: "If a tattered sparrow should peck at your window, let him in. He's a political refugee...
Church union on a local scale seemed the only answer to Barrow's problem when he arrived in the newly built paper town in 1945. Marathon's population was nearly 80% Protestant but no single denomination was large enough to support itself. Anglican Barrow started holding services in the paper mill's cookhouse, in a vacant barn or any other sizable shelter. In two years Barrow and his Protestant congregation had built their own church...
...before the Economic Club in Manhattan rose Chairman Alan Valentine of the Economic Stabilization Agency. "Do we need drastic surgery such as general [price & wage] controls?" he asked. Professorial Dr. Valentine then gave himself a cryptic answer: "We shall soon know . . . as we observe a few test cases now under way in important fields." Valentine did not name the test cases, but it was a good bet that he was thinking about the steel industry, where a wage increase is sure to be followed by a price rise. Perhaps Dr. Valentine was trying to frighten other businessmen who had price...
...Valentine's question got a slightly different answer from Manly Fleischmann, general counsel of the National Production Authority. Said Fleischmann: if $50 to $60 billion is appropriated for defense for fiscal 1951, the U.S. will be forced by midsummer to establish something like the Controlled Materials Plan of World War II. That would mean controlling copper, steel, aluminum and other strategic materials all the way from production to consumption, and allocating them for specific military and civilian products. If this program should cut down supplies of such consumer goods as autos and refrigerators, Fleischmann added cautiously, "I should think...