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...West relations in Europe, the crisis crystallized the strengths and weaknesses of both. The Yalta-Potsdam comedy was played out. With or without another top-level conference between Russia and the Western powers, the old agreements, long since dishonored by the Communists, would be replaced by a more realistic pattern. What that pattern would be depended on how much strength, cooperation and purpose the Western nations could generate in the next few months...
...valley has long filled men with dreams of wealth, but actually the valley is a great wasteland. From the air the Amazon looks at one minute like a wide brown river (it varies from one to seven miles in width). In the next minute, it has lost all pattern in a thousand islands of every conceivable size...
...leaves him "asleep in the wet grass, with his motionless arms still tightly bound behind him, with the scapular twisted awry across his face, and the blood from his breast sinking into the soil he had tried to free." Winifred Black, the original sob sister, sets the pattern for countless future sob sister leads with "I begged, cajoled and cried my way through the line of soldiers" to get into Galveston after the flood (1900). Then she compresses the harrowing scene into six words: "We've burned over 1,000 people today...
Following the tactics of Communists and of Hollywood's "unfriendly ten," the left-wing leaders refused to answer. In the now familiar pattern, they tried to 'turn the witness chair into a soapbox, hurled accusations at the Congressmen, and got themselves thrown...
...effects of this strategy would be widespread. FTC says that there are 191,907 companies which use basing points. As industry's bellwether, Big Steel had set a pattern which thousands would follow. As a result, U.S. consumers might soon have to pay more for a whole lot of things -for furniture, oil, machinery, paper and hundreds of other items...