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...chart for democracy will go before the Diet for approval after the April elections. The betting was that it would be accepted with little change. The chief obstacle might be Russia, which promptly complained that General MacArthur had overstepped his powers. "Fundamental changes in the Japanese constitution" are one of the matters specifically reserved for Big Four decision under the Moscow agreement of last December. Although Russia gave no sign what sort of constitution she did want, the Japanese Communists, alone among the political parties, attacked the new document, charging that it was designed to keep the Emperor...
...aiming our explosives with the care and accuracy of a marksman firing a rifle at a bull's-eye. ..." A typical 1944-45 score, in the coldly factual language of the new report: 3.5% hits in a factory area covering three and a half square miles (see chart...
...paid higher wages than the scientists). They sailed from Honolulu last week aboard the U.S.S. Bowditch, to catalogue plant and animal life on & near the atoll. After the explosions, they would make another expedition, to get a before-&-after picture. Years later, they would return to ravished Bikini, to chart the slow, painful process of repopulation...
...shippers, anxiously waiting for Congress to chart a shipping policy, could finally weigh anchor. Congress passed the Bland Bill, which provides for 1) the disposal of surplus war-built ships; and 2) refunds to ship operators to reimburse them for the high cost of ships purchased during the war. From the vast U.S. merchant fleet of 40,080,000 tons, 61% of all the ships in the world, the U.S. Maritime Commission will put on the block 2,000 or more slow Liberty ships, about 400 faster Victory ships and C-type cargo liners, and about 550 speedy tankers. Selling...
...estimated 36 billion board feet of lumber, a production mark last achieved in 1942. Since then, lumber production has been falling steadily. The deficit has been made up from mill and retail yard stockpiles. But now stockpiles are down to only five and a half billion board feet (see chart), and even this small amount is badly distributed. More than ever before, the U.S. will have to depend on what it actually logs. And the industry, which last year produced only 27 billion board feet, is now plagued with a bewildering array of afflictions-strikes, bad weather, manpower troubles, inadequate...