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Baffled Dutch occupation leaders could be thankful that Bali was not repeating Southeast Asia's familiar pattern of blood, terror and famine. Intensely cultivated Bali had more food than the natives could...
...State Department, which had been careful to say that it refused only to sign a military agreement with Perón, all this had a pleasant sound. It would give the U.S. time to find a way out. Meanwhile U.S. policy would fit the traditional Latin pattern...
Three to Make Ready (music by Morgan Lewis; sketches and lyrics by Nancy Hamilton; produced by Stanley Gilkey and Barbara Payne) bobbed up, after a series of slithering musicomedies, as the season's first revue. But the change of pattern provided little change of luck. Despite having Dancer Ray Bolger (On Your Toes, By Jupiter), a star with about the nimblest feet in show business, Three to Make Ready slithers too. Its music is tepid and tacky. Most of its skits are not funny at all and the rest are not funny enough...
...words (some of them ambiguous), Economic Stabilizer Chester Bowles this week told industry what the new wage-price policy really means. The clarification still left vast areas of fog. The policy does not mean, said Bowles, that the 18½?-an-hour steel increase is to be the pattern for U.S. industry. Nor does it mean that a wage boost, alone, is enough to get a corresponding boost in price ceilings. But the policy did mean, he said, that companies can now get prompt price relief if 1) they have been squeezed into the red by rising wages...
...wages, the new policy left employers right where they were-up in the air. Bowles said that each case will be considered on its merits. A different "pattern" of increases will be set for each industry. The general objective will be to let wages rise 33% above 1941. However, wage increases not approved by the National Wage Stabilization Board cannot be used as a basis for a price increase. Thus the red tape which now tangles wages, prices and production looked just as snarled as ever...