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...squad, by contrast, seemed dead on its skates, quite likely the result of weariness from two previous games that week. Only defenseman Dusty Burke, who checked viciously, and center Walt Greeley, who tallied the Crimson's lone goal with a half-minute remaining in the game, showed the scrap which had characterized the team in pre-exam games. The final score (5 to 1) was not indicative of the relative strength of the two teams and the Crimson should fare much better in the return match at the Arena later this month...
...Scrap Yet. The wage-freeze order had to be thawed out almost immediately, and had to be replaced completely in a few days by a formula for a flexible system of wage controls. A first test was John L. Lewis. His coal contract (TIME, Jan. 29) had been signed before the wage freeze, to go into effect after it. The Wage Stabilization Board was ready to grant John L.'s miners the 20?-an-hour wage raise contained in the new contract. Explained one coal official: "I doubt like hell if they're going to get into...
...French, who had only reluctantly agreed to German rearmament, chose to find grounds for hope in Moscow's vague reply. There was a lot of talk in Britain and France to the effect that the West ought to stand ready to delay or scrap West Germany's defense in exchange for Russian concessions. The fact remained that no conceivable concessions by Moscow could be worth a strong Germany in the Western camp. Washington remained cool to the Russian offer. But by merely crooking its diplomatic little finger, Moscow had managed to show up (and increase) the cracks...
...Ordered manufacturers to channel all their copper and brass scrap into "normal trade sources," i.e., not into grey market conversion deals...
...Britain's complaint was not that the stockpile was too small, but that the U.S. had set out on a "reckless" stockpiling of everything that was scarce. "American buyers right up to the Pentagon," said one British government consultant, "have been rattling around Europe buying metals from every scrap heap...