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...forward observation post in the south, where the stench of high explosives and of the dead defiled the delicate scent of apple blossoms, leathery, bullet-headed Marshal Ivan Konev last week briefed his commanders. He spoke of the new power of the Red Air Force and of its first function: close, devoted support of troops on the ground. Almost as he spoke, swarms of Stormomks skimmed over the apple trees to blast the German troops, gun positions and tanks...
This is the whole function of the Fund-a reserve of foreign exchange from which to borrow when normal sources of exchange run short. In order to make it work, those who are losing must be kept from shoving in more (and perhaps less valuable) chips while they borrow the good chips of the winners. The Fund pro poses to do this...
Both institutions will come into existence when countries having 65% of the agreed-on subscriptions have notified the U.S. that they have ratified the plan. Bank and Fund will not begin to function actively until "major hostilities" in Europe have ceased. Other nations will be admitted on terms to be agreed upon...
...much wheat WFA will purchase, could be sure of two points: 1) that WFA would buy just as much wheat as necessary to hold prices firm, 2) that the Government agency, either through direct buying or commodity loans to farmers, has the market so rigged that the traditional function of futures trading will be pointless...
...signalized a drastic reorientation in our society. It marked a real break with the past. The old voluntaristic drives, the 'rugged individualism' of both capital and labor, had lost their momentum. ... In its original impulses the New Deal was an American variant of European collectivisms - trying to function within our traditional system. Labor is at the very center of this social revolution. It furnished the mass base for the New Deal." Though he later broke with C.I.O., Dubinsky played a big part in furnishing this mass base for Franklin Roosevelt ("the greatest labor leader of them all," says...