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...machine, which Britain has been running at top speed since war's end, was already missing on a few cylinders. Last year Cripps set the export target for the end of 1948 at 160% of prewar level. Last week, it was cut to 150%. There was simply no likelihood that the higher one could be reached...
Even the Soviet Union, with its spring grain being sowed earlier than at any time since the Revolution, was now able to send the satellites of Eastern Europe something better than propaganda. Everywhere the winter wheat was ripening. Europe's prospects, plus the likelihood of bumper crops in Argentina and Australia, were already discernible in the break in the U.S. grain market (see BUSINESS). Europe's industry was benefiting in healthier, happier workers. With less coal going into family stoves, there was more for factory furnaces. In the Ruhr, absenteeism was down to three-fifths of last year...
...against the Barnes Bill have been the charges attacking H 1597. But H 1597, labeled the "Little Dies Committee Bill" by its opponents, constitutes a greater threat to civil liberties than does the Barnes Bill; it is not limited to the field of education and there is far more likelihood that it will become law. The Bill provides for a committee on subversive activities in the Massachusetts legislature which would bring the Dics-Rankin-Thomas type of investigation down to the state level...
Varga's findings: 1) no economic reasons now exist for a struggle between Soviet socialism and Western capitalism; 2) there is no likelihood of a capitalist crisis before 1955; 3) capitalist states can, in times of emergency, control profits and regulate monopolies in the national interest; 4) in wartime, the workers' living standards in capitalist states rose 20%; 5) Russia's Eastern European satellites are a weak economic reed, comparatively unimportant to total European recovery...
...likelihood Elizabeth would not have been too disappointed over the pearly Nylons. "The spacious days are gone," she told an audience at the Royal Society of Arts last week. "But we should be defeatist indeed if we concluded that, because everything we produce today must be severely practical, it must also be without taste or beauty." As gifts of everything from stuffed pillows to sewing machines piled up in St. James's Palace (TIME, Nov. 10), a young lord asked Elizabeth what she needed most: "So far," said the Princess, "we're awfully short on silver and Mummie...