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...Guam's Apra Harbor 2,100 Japs marched aboard a Jap-manned transport en route to their homeland. By December 50,000 more-the last U.S. prisoners in the Pacific-will be returned. Some 90,000 British-held Japs will still remain, and the Dutch have announced that they intend to keep another 13,500 indefinitely in Indonesia for dockside and other heavy labor...
...still the Soviet watchword. To ensure "further growth of the economic and military might of the Soviet Union," the allotments for scientific research (i.e., the atom) were tripled to 6.3 billion rubles. But the emphasis is on domestic reconstruction rather than foreign expansion. Appropriations for industry, agriculture and transport were all substantially raised. Education jumped from 26.4 to 40.2 billion rubles. The budget also: ¶ Estimated Soviet state income at 333.5 billion rubles. Chief sources of revenue: 200.8 billion from a turnover tax on all economic enterprises, 21 billion profit taxes from industry, 23.5 billion individual income taxes (cut from...
...Dutra Government is working hard to mend matters. Last week, experts in London and Sāo Paulo were deep in dicker over modernization plans for half a dozen British-owned railways and tram lines. Transport Minister Edmundo de Macedo Scares, back from. Washington, claimed promise of a $50,000,000 credit for new equipment and highways...
...sizable dent had been made in the housing shortage. But outside of statistics-minded Washington, the hopes of ordinary people to get the kind of place they want to live in were far down. In Manhattan, Communist-line Michael Quill, head of the C.I.O.'s Transport Workers Union, saw his chance to create unrest and political capital. He urged veterans to squat in boarded-up Fifth Avenue mansions, as the Commies had done in London...
Secret Ballot. The German boys run the club themselves. Sergeant Moriarty and his nine friends call themselves counselors. They provide transport, equipment, refreshments and other necessary items out of their own pockets. But from the first, Moriarty pounded home the point that the object of the club was to teach German boys the independent, democratic way of life. And they are learning it. First they elected temporary officers. G.I.s and counselors guided them. One of the first things the boys wanted to know was how the secret ballot system works. The temporary officers then drew up temporary rules. Rule No.11...