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...Army, which is strong for the merger, was fired across the long, mahogany table in the Senate caucus room by sobersided Robert Patterson, Secretary of War. Like the first shot in a bombardment, it was to fix the range. The future peace of the world, said the Secretary, would depend not only upon the policies of the U.S., but also upon the strength which the U.S. maintained to back up these policies. Having fixed the range, the Secretary began to pepper the target with arguments to prove that unification of the armed forces was necessary for maximum strength, efficiency, economy...
...daily diet as well as the industrial prosperity of almost all of Europe may depend on the recommendations contained in Elliott's report. The fate of UNRRA of our financial policy to Britain, and of our industrial rehabilitation or demobilization of Germany may all lie between its leather covers...
...rich Lake Superior region, the steam shovels are biting close to the bottom of the vast open-pit iron ore mines, including those in the famed Mesabi Range. Within 17 years the steel industry will have to depend on low-grade iron ores...
...usual, were for shorter hours and higher pay. Labor wanted to work less, spread employment and get the equivalent of wartime pay. The cost of living, labor pointed out, is still up. Said Walter Reuther, the auto workers' brain truster: full production, full employment and full distribution depend on keeping wages at their present level...
Whether Grieco will control Togliatti, or vice versa, will depend upon what policy Italian Communism is ordered to adopt. The man in the street takes it for granted that the order will come from Moscow. So far, Togliatti's success at persuasion by moderation has been only moderate. If there was a good chance that the Communist Party could win control of the Government in elections, the violence almost everyone now expects would not come off. But the elections would be Communism's last chance for power-except by violent seizure...