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Hoffman was calling for integration at a time when the split between controlled-economy Britain and the relatively free-economy Continent was wider than ever. The French and their continental friends were still fuming over the fact that the British had devalued the pound without even consulting them (TIME, Sept. 26 et seq.). They accused the U.S. of granting Britain the privileges of a specially favored nation, at the expense of Western Europe's unity. Hoffman tried to deflect some of this resentment. He was taking a crack at the British when he called upon the governments to give...
Quotes from the Left. Burma's Communists are the chief beneficiaries of this Karen-Burmese hatred. Burma probably has less than 10,000 convinced Communists (split into two major groups), but it has millions of ardent leftists. Prime Minister Thakin Nu himself was long a disciple of Marx, and he depends for his chief parliamentary support on the Socialists, who are militantly nationalist and anticapitalist...
...spreading out near the surface broke Pangea into chunks and carried them apart. His theory, says Urey, accounts for the remarkable fact, first pointed out by Alfred Wegener in his theory of continental drift, that the eastern coast of the Americas looks as if it had been split away from the western coast of the Old World...
...Peak. The great roaring bull market had reached its peak on Sept. 3, when U.S. Steel hit 261¾, General Electric reached 396¼, Radio Corporation of America passed 500 (on a pre-split basis), and the Dow-Jones industrial average reached its alltime high mark of 381.17. In the same week that Adams Express, an investment trust, split its stock 10-for-1, the stock jumped 100 points. As October came there was a series of severe shakeouts. But few took them as a warning. Smart operators thought a setback was only a golden chance...
Last year, the varsity was completely submerged by both teams, while the freshmen split, defeating Yale, but losing to Princeton...