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Last week that fact was dramatically plain. By a thumping nonpartisan majority, (360-to-29) the House had passed the Fulbright Resolution, pledging the U.S. to carry its full load in postwar international relations (TIME, June...
...Earnings. War prosperity has increased the value and earning power of many insurance investments, notably railroad bonds. It has also helped the industry get out from under its crushing load of sour farm mortgages and foreclosed farms. During the depression, U.S. insurance companies had to take over 100,000 farms, worth (on the books) over $1 billion. By the end of the next crop season, most companies figure they will have disposed of all of them. Increased earnings from such sources arrested-at least temporarily-a 14-year downtrend in the net interest rate of U.S. insurance companies last year...
...these returns from the front was brought in by the Navy's "Butch" O'Hare. What the Navy needed, he told Grumman men, was a fighter aircraft that could outclimb and outmaneuver a Zero, carry more .50-caliber guns than the Wildcat (four), lug a decent load of armor, and range farther than any Navy fighter had ever ranged before...
...aboard could not have suffered; the bomb load had seen to that...
...Hope got back from Britain shortly after a brush with Westminster Abbey authorities. The comedian and a cinema company with a load of cinematic baggage had piled into the Dean's Yard to shoot some scenes, promptly got bundled out again. They had neglected to ask permis sion. Title of the movie: Welcome to Great Britain...