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...atom-bomb stock on scores of gullible Quebeckers. One investor, a Montreal physician, reportedly bit to the tune of $20,000. Since the atom bomb was top secret, the peddlers were mum about the way it was to be commercialized. But their fancy, engraved stock looked mighty pretty. A chunk of "deactivated bomb," a gear or two from an airplane motor, parts of a small lathe were more concrete come-ons. Provincial police, not impressed, arrested two atom-stock sellers. Still at large: the president of Atom...
...race to grab a bigger chunk of the world trade market than it ever had before, Britain passed the first lap last week. And it was running well ahead of its schedule to pay off its import debts by exporting 75% more goods than it did in 1938. Only six months ago, the goal seemed impossibly distant. Exports were barely 50% of the 1938 monthly rate...
...effort has to be directed into the most economical channels. The Government's new role in industry constitutes an economic revolution against self-directing free enterprise. The Cleggs of the cotton industry and vigorous leaders in young industries like aircraft, plastics, and rayon textiles, might salvage a sizable chunk of the industrial process for free enterprise as it is known in the U.S. But in the planning for cotton, Britons could see the pattern for the British version of "free" enterprise, with the state as efficiency expert as well as overall planner...
Strange Sweet. This spring, Sybille went to work for the Americans, and things were a little better. Most meals consisted of soup and potatoes, with a thin slice of sausage and cheese three times a week in the evening, and a small chunk of meat on Sundays. By standing in line for hours, Frau Weidner could get bread and now & then some cereal. Sybille even brought home some G.I. candy for her small brother. Dieter looked at it uncomprehendingly. "What is that?" he asked...
...with the arrival of peace Scranton's 140,000 citizens, unwilling to accept a ghost city in a deserted valley, decided to bet a chunk of solid cash on a new future. Spurred on by civic leader Ralph E. Weeks, president of world-famous International Correspondence Schools, they formed a corporation (The Scranton Plan Inc.), wrote a campaign song (Buy Scranton Bonds), and, on street corners, in barber shops and bars, at luncheons and rallies, began collecting $100 pledges...