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Dolls. Doll production was held up by a lack of suitable stuffing and paint. Low-priced textiles for dolls' clothes were scarce. After thoroughly combing the market, Fleischaker & Baum Co. gave up the search for human hair for their life like EffanBee Dolls. (Prewar EffanBee Dolls wore human hair imported from Italy and China.) In Leominster, Mass., F. A. Whitney Carriage Co. was ready to make doll carriages again, but could not recruit enough ex-war workers who were willing to work for peacetime wages...
...search for a successor had been started back in 1941. At that time a Senatorial investigation had put Hollywood on the worst spot in its history, yet Hays came up with no aggressive ideas to beat off the attack. The industry, realizing that the chips were down, hired the late, great Wendell Lewis Willkie as defense counsel. Willkie was eminently successful. Hays, realizing that he was on the skids, tried to save the job he had held since the office was founded in 1922. But last June his authority fell completely when Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. became the first major...
...jump ahead of the Republicans, Majority Leader Alben Barkley rose in the Senate to call for a joint committee of five Senators and five Representatives to search into the "cold, unvarnished, indisputable facts." No favoritism should be shown, he warned. Nor should the investigation be carried out with "the purpose of gratifying the misanthropic hatreds of any person toward any present or past public servant, high or low, living or dead...
...American-occupied zone, control authorities kicked out 40,000 Berlin block, street and house leaders. They had originally been appointed by the Russians to search out known Nazis, handle ration cards, report on available labor. The American report was that the small-fry German leaders had begun to wield power in their neighborhoods just as arrogantly as their predecessors in Germany's notorious block organizations had done under Hitler; some of them had actually worked under the Nazi regime. (The British still held to the block leaders, warned them not to consider themselves little kings but servants...
When Eaton returned to North Africa, he was flush with a $20,000 revolution-promotion fund. His first task was to find the rightful Pasha, who had fled in terror far up the Nile. After a two-month search he found his man. Somewhat reluctantly, Hamet signed a treaty of alliance with the U.S., made Eaton a general in his army, and agreed to march on Tripoli...