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...Treasury he would lose money on it. The advantage in buying canned gold dust, to hard-shelled citizens who aren't sure that paper money is here to stay, is that it is the only form of gold that the Government lets them hoard. Another hoarder, Alf Ringen, the postmaster of Kindred, N.Dak., rebelled at a 15-year-old government order which directed postal employees to save string; he had a 100-lb. ball of the stuff and it was getting...
...young people who played the boy and the girl in "Torment" when it was filmed in 1946 have since been called forth to bigger things. Mai Zetterling, the girl, has been seen lately in several J. Arthur Rank productions, and the boy, Alf Kjellin, has spent the last couple of years in Hollywood in the employment of David O. Stelznick--making no pictures, but having his named changed every so often. That is a pity, because he is an actor of something more than promise. Miss Zetterling doesn't really have a great deal to do in the film...
...Alf Elliott peered out from under bushy red eyebrows and a soiled worker's cap. "It's not that we object to the machine so much," Alf said. "We're all for the machine just so it don't replace us and make us-" he groped for a 10-bob word-"and make us redundant. But the guv'nor [the boss] just put it on without consulting us and laid off those men. We can't allow that...
...Alf was one of 412 London dockers, employed by Butler's Wharf Ltd., who went on a brief strike last week when the "guv'nor" put to work a British-made forklift truck (a mobile, automatic stacking machine) to help the men unload grapes, lemons and Dutch cheese. Observing that the machine enabled one man to do the work of three, the guv'nor laid off 14 men from a team of 21. The strike followed; the dockers returned only when the machine was withdrawn, pending negotiations...
Almost before Alf knew it, there he was with his family in "The House of Windsor," one of four giant dining halls serving 1,500 Butlineers each. Before Alf's week was up "The House of Windsor" would have become his alma mater, his particular allegiance against the other three royal houses (York, Gloucester, Kent). "Welcome, campers, to Windsor," loomed the loudspeaker. "Now let's all get to know each other right away. Introduce yourself to the camper on each side of you. Fine. Now to the camper across the table...