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...first efforts of the four Allied zone commanders to alleviate the Berlin crisis at the "working level" resulted in complete breakdown-so complete that immediate suspicion arose that the Russian commander, Marshal Vassily Sokolovsky, was merely stalling. While the Berlin talks were going on, the Communists tried crassly and unsuccessfully to increase their stranglehold on the city (see below...
...companies giving a breakdown, 24 reported that no individual held as much as 1%. Five out of every six holders owned 100 shares or less. About 9% of the stockholders-accounting for 41% of the shares-were institutions (schools, hospitals, cemeteries, investment and insurance companies). They, in turn, represented millions of other individuals...
...measure of China's tragedy is not Shanghai's soaring inflation, nor the tide of battles lost & won. It is the horde of refugees streaming southward, 30,000,000 starving, diseased, despairing people. They stand for the breakdown of Chinese society under Communist hammer blows which caught China in the difficult and disturbing transition toward Western progress. The Communist attack has not only halted such progress; it is sweeping away the village, the family-all the ancient pillars of Chinese society which endured despite primitive economics and decadent politics. TIME China Correspondent Fred Gruin last week headed...
Boas in the Bath. Within weeks after the Ritz opened in 1898, the world had become the guest of dapper César Ritz. His intense efforts to please his patrons led to a breakdown in 1911, death seven years later. After that, his personally trained assistants ("the Academicians") and Mimi ("counselor to the management") saw to it that the Ritz tradition was maintained. Though Ritz had had an active hand in London's Carlton and a dozen other big European hotels, and had less actively sponsored the tri-continental Ritz-Carlton group, no other hotel ever achieved...