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Early this year the exclusiveness of this combination underwent a significant change. British capital, once exported in large amounts, was kept at home by rigid exchange controls. South Africa felt the pinch. It needed upwards of $300 million to develop the new Orange Free State field (TIME, April 29). Industrial expansion and new mining machinery would soak up millions more. Although sound and prosperous, South Africa did not have this sort of money on hand. U.S. businessmen, still outside the golden circle, saw the chance of a lifetime. Two U.S. firms lost no time taking...
...Peterson, pinch-hitting for Seymour Croft, hit a slow roller to third, but Bill "Neck" Tighe threw the ball away allowing Hubbell to score. Bill Harford singled driving in Hamlen from third, and sending Peterson to third...
Frank Sinatra (Sun. 7 p.m., ABC). Pinch-hitting for Commentator Drew Pearson...
Last week 1 ,300 pinch-faced Polish men & women were studying at Breslau (now called Wroclaw) at the onetime German university. Biggest difficulty: the university at Breslau had no books in Polish, only in German. Groused one student: "Here I am, a boy from Lwów, at a Polish university, after a war which the Germans lost-and I must learn German before I can study...
...Horan had life by the tail. Everybody said she looked like Linda Darnell-and she did. Everybody said her three children were bright and beautiful. They were. Her pin-clean apartment in ugly, teeming Astoria, across the East River from Upper Manhattan, was not so bad, considering the housing pinch. And her husband...