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...Storch, 36, president of the Lehigh Valley Newspaper Guild (C.I.O.), had concentrated on industrial Lehigh County. "If I can win it," he had said, "we will have proved our point that the Republicans can be beaten in the next national election." In Lehigh County the G.O.P. upped its 1946 margin of 54.4% to 55.1%-What pained the Democrats most was the national attention which the election got. They had started the fight; they could not alibi their way out of it now. The P.A.C. had poured out money and speakers whose principal campaign weapon was a pun: they called...
...anxiously to see what effect, if any, Britain's crisis might have on Labor's vote. When the votes were counted last week, the score was: Labor, 10,827; Conservative, 8,874; Liberal, 910. In 1945 the Labor Party had carried the Edge Hill district by a margin of 6,039. Last week's vote was a loss of some 2,300 votes for Labor. Said Conservative Party Chairman Lord Woolton: "The drastic lowering of the Government majority . . . in this largely working-class district is a most heartening sign...
This week, as the Dodgers raced toward the finish seven games ahead, it was at least arguable that Jackie Robinson had furnished the margin of victory. The Dodgers are certainly not a one-man ball club. They have a bull-necked powerhouse of a catcher named Bruce Edwards, 24, whose special talents are steadiness and hustle. In Pee Wee Reese and Eddie Stanky, both short of height but long on skill, they have the best keystone combination in the league. The Dodgers also have a special affection for 34-year-old relief pitcher Hugh Casey, who has come onto...
...president of Boston's Federal Reserve Bank, thought he had spotted the devil. It was Speculation. "The situation today in the commodity markets is comparable to that in the stockmarket in 1929," said he, "and it could have the same disastrous results." He demanded that trading on margin be eliminated and that trading in grains be put on a cash basis...
Dimmer. The Federal Power Commission somberly agreed with a forecast that the U.S. is due for a new electric light and power crisis. The margin between demand and capacity to produce is as narrow as it has ever been. Barely started on the greatest expansion program in its history, the industry expects the "tight squeeze" to last throughout next year and well into...