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...there was one other big reason. It was the basic political fact that a state's position in the national political scene is often determined by a purely internal political scrap. Nowhere was that clearer than in Pennsylvania, the host to the convention, the traditional home of rugged Republicanism, the Keystone State whose 73 votes are second in weight only to New York...
...Scrap. Japan, a big prewar buyer of U.S. steel scrap, offered to sell some postwar scrap. Through the New York trade office of SCAP (Supreme Commander for Allied Powers), the Japanese Board of Trade offered 137,000 metric tons of steel and scrap to the highest U.S. bidders...
When the National Health Assembly (called by the Federal Security Administration) met in Washington last week, everybody expected a scrap. The American Medical Association, champion of medicine-as-it-is, was in one corner. In the other: spokesmen for farm groups, labor unions, consumers' associations and minority medical groups, all of which believe that U.S. medical care is too expensive and fails to reach the people who need it most...
...Colonna. laughing and slapping each other's backs. "Let's go home!" cried one woman. "The danger is over." While Romans celebrated democracy's victory, swarms of the city's ragged children roamed the streets, tearing down election posters in order to sell them as scrap for a few lire. It was a sharp reminder that the danger was far from over. The victors still had a price to pay for their 18 million anti-Communist votes. The price was land and bread for Italy's workers and peasants...
...immigration program." That put it squarely up to Ottawa. It also got Drew off the hook. Ontario's labor shortage is easing up. Moreover, immigrants are squawking at the poor jobs offered and the appalling housing shortage there. Drew's immigration program seemed headed for the scrap heap anyhow. Now he could blame it on Ottawa...