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...poured into his Washington headquarters. At first they were evenly divided for & against the program; by last week they had switched to 90% in favor. He noted an even more significant point: the average weight of butchered hogs had dropped from 276 lbs. to 248 lbs.* His next major target was the meat packers. One possibility: asking packers to slap an embargo on overstuffed hogs and cattle (for an estimated saving of 60 million bushels of grain a year...
Britain stands a good chance of meeting Cripps's export target of 164% of prewar levels by the end of 1948. But even if all goes according to Cripps's plan, at the end of 1948 Britain's deficit in trade with the U.S. will still be at the rate of $1 billion per year. With characteristic realism, Cripps did not count on further U.S. aid while constructing his plans for Britain's economy. But he knew that only U.S. help could build up Europe's production. The Marshall Plan discussions, he said...
...deceptively simple to poke fun at Barnes' announcement. Any man who piously asserts his "considered opinion" to be that the "re-establishment of the Comintern . . . and its increased efforts within this country have created a situation fraught with danger to the Commonwealth" is making himself a broad target for board witticisms. But to laugh off Barnes' who successfully sponsored a highly restrictive labor bill last fall, is to ignore a man capable of exerting considerable influence to ends that actually are fraught with danger...
...Football is still a deadly serious and unnerving game to him, even though he has faced, as have many players on 1947 squads, worse menaces than an onrushing tackier. On Christmas Day, 1944, Sergeant Chappuis rode in a B-25 as radioman and gunner, on his first mission. The target: a railroad bridge in Italy's heavily fortified Brenner Pass. After that, in the next seven weeks, there were 19 more missions. The 21st time...
...been assigned to bomb a mountainside, so that rocks would fall and seal a railroad tunnel below. Over the target, a burst of flak knocked out one engine, then the other engine went out. When the order came to bail out, the tailgunner went out first, and got stuck in the escape hatch, pinned against the rear of it by the wind pressure. Chappuis kicked him in the only accessible place-his head -and knocked him loose. Then he jumped...