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Guglielmo Emanuel, editor-in-chief of Milan's Corriere Delia Sera, Italy's most influential newspaper, has managed to fill the wartime gap in his file of TIME, to which he has subscribed from our first year of publication. A back-of-the-book fan, he told Jones: "No other magazine- popularizes medicine, science, etc. in the same way-easy to read, but not superficial...
Harvard ran up an early lead, mainly on the shooting of Ed Smith and Gerry Murphy, and had opened a ten-point gap midway through the first period. But in the last ten minutes, the varsity scored only five field goals, two of them coming within the last two minutes and enabling Harvard to tie the score, 30-30 at the half...
...years since the ECAid began, Western Europe's industrial production (excluding Germany's) had risen to about 15% above the 1938 level. The dollar gap (the amount by which Europe's imports from the dollar area exceed her exports to it) had been narrowed from $8.5 billion in 1947 to an estimated $4.5 billion for 1950. Western Europe's economic strategists generally think that by 1952, when ECAid ends, they will have narrowed the gap further, and will have achieved a "manageable" economy...
...even if the conditions of these big ifs are fulfilled, OEEC's "manageable" economy after 1952 will not mean balanced trade between Europe and the U.S. A gap of at least $2.5 billion will remain. The Marshall Plan, OEEC's report points out, is incapable of reversing a world trade trend that has been developing for almost half a century; i.e., since the U.S. began outproducing and outselling the rest of the world's great industrial nations...
When Knight climbed into the saddle, the News was trotting along with 426,644 readers, 58,000 behind the Hearstpaper. In five years, the Herald-American has cantered to a circulation peak of 548,000, but the News has almost closed up the gap, is now only 6,000 behind...