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...black market. Until the farmers met their food quotas, workers in Western Germany would go hungry. Last week, an emergency session of the Bizonal Economic Council (the highest German-run agency in the U.S.-British zone) passed a law to pry the food from the farm leaders. Henceforth, farmers and food handlers who failed to report all their stocks could be fined up to $10,000, get three years in jail...
...rival Harvard Herald began putting out extras on sports events which Boston papers credited with being "the fastest ever known in the newspaper world." The more staid CRIMSON met this threat to supremacy by amalgamating with the Herald in a bargain which gave the CRIMSON every conceivable advantage, and henceforth it became a daily...
...Henceforth the railway system which handles more passengers than any other in the world would be owned & operated, along with all other public transport, by the British government. For about $4 billion worth of shares, railway shareholders received an equal amount of new gilt-edged securities bearing 3% interest guaranteed by the government; the change was not as bad as many had feared...
...postwar turmoil, Victor Emmanuel, appraising unrest at home and tottering dynasties abroad, handed Italy over to Benito Mussolini. It was the first -and last-time he ever defied his ministers; henceforth he was impotent to prevent his downfall. But Benito, the blacksmith's son, promised to look after the little king. The Italian people paid the price for 23 years...
...Cambridge University (founded circa 1200) had long treated its women students as stepsisters. A full 28 years after Oxford (founded circa 1100), Cambridge has finally caught up with the times, made the women's Girton and Newnham Colleges full kith & kin to the men's colleges. Henceforth, women will be able to take their degrees, vote in university government, hold all but two Cambridge offices (exceptions: proctor and mace-bearer...