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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Hardly was the ink dry on Harry Truman's national emergency proclamation (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) when Economic Stabilizer Alan Valentine cracked down on the auto industry. He ordered new car prices rolled back to the Dec. 1 level-and kept there for at least three months. After the Government had studied the situation carefully, the price structure would be reviewed to see if the auto companies were entitled to the increases they had tried to put into effect...
...order was a direct slap at General Motors and Ford, which only a week before had turned down Valentine's request to suspend their price increases (TIME, Dec. 18). But it also affected Chrysler and Nash, which had raised prices last week...
...Dallas, a theater chain called off its plans to show the British film version of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, which has been awaiting U.S. release for two years (TIME, Dec. 4). On protests from Jewish groups that the movie's faithful portrayal of Fagin was a slur on Jews, Joseph Breen, Hollywood's own unofficial censor, had denied the picture a seal of approval. The film's U.S. distributor, Eagle Lion Classics, appealed for a reversal by the Motion Picture Association of America...
...Blue and the Gray, edited by Henry Steele Commager. Two memorable volumes of letters, memoirs and journalism by Americans who fought and lived the Civil War; a participants' account by men & women who knew what they were fighting for (TIME, Dec...
...Hinge of Fate, by Winston S. Churchill. Volume IV of Churchill's World War II memoirs; Singapore to Tunisia in another incomparable Churchillian account (TIME, Dec...