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With the House off on a three-week holiday, Senators bent their backs to a grueling double chore. One was the job of cutting expenditures, in which President Truman, continually suggesting ways to spend money, gave little help. The other was to squeeze out of the taxpayers, without squeezing them...
Now the squeeze was on Mossadeq. His strategy-expel the company, keep the technicians-failed, as the British determined to clear out, and let the Iranians simmer in their oil until they came around. The old Premier tried concessions. Radio Teheran announced that Mossadeq was suspending plans to rush through...
Rubber was only one of many commodities which were sliding down last week from their price peaks. Malayan tin dropped to $1.14½ a lb.-a 41% slump in four months-because the Reconstruction Finance Corp., buyer of all U.S. tin, had stopped buying. It is selling its stockpiled tin...
The Congressmen watched the heavy ore boat traffic through Sault Ste. Marie. Then they cruised on the Canadian icebreaker Ernest Lapointe through part of the 120-mile bottleneck preventing similar navigation past the St. Lawrence rapids below Ogdensburg, N.Y. Even with fuel and ballast reduced to cut her draft, the...
Muscle Flexing. The U.S. could probably force the other nations into line by throwing its economic weight around. But the State Department has said no. It fears that such pressure might crack the fragile U.S. political alliances. To show that the U.S. is willing to give as well as take...