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...upsy-daisy was important because the election it necessitates-probably to be held in May or early June-will be a straw-in-the-wind prelude to the Dominion-wide election due this summer. Certainly all parties will shoot the works in Ontario, aware that provincial victory will boost national chances...
...this week, shortly after the hearings opened, Bretton Woods got its first resounding boost. A steady barrage of criticism from big U.S. bankers-almost the only Americans who professed to understand these highly important but technical matters-had given the Bretton Woods proposals a bad press ever since they were signed. The final official say of the American Bankers Association (TIME, Feb. 12) was that the proposed World Reconstruction Bank was sound, but not the Monetary Fund, from which countries could borrow foreign funds when lopsided trade threatened temporarily to restrict their purchases...
...official was heard to remark: "She gets less things done wrong than anyone I ever ran into." One of the things she got done was a boost in salaries, which endeared her to the faculty. She settled firmly into the president's chair, surveying the academic world with snapping brown eyes and an air of self-sufficiency...
...said RCA, NBC, Zenith, General Electric, Stromberg-Carlson, FM Broadcasters Inc.-the move to a higher band might delay FM's postwar development, might make the present 500,000 FM sets useless, boost the price of new receiving sets, necessitate equipment changes...
Although some 4,000,000 workers in the textile industry, Southern railroads, and service industries, etc. are now eligible for increases, WLB estimates that only about 750,000 may eventually get them. The reason: regional labor boards can hand out raises only if the increases do not boost retail prices or the cost of materials bought by the Federal Government...