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Bosses of Havana's embattled bus company, the Cooperativa de Omnibus Aliados, have suffered and bled for years over the old Cuban custom of filtración. Under this time-honored racket, unscrupulous conductors on the company's rickety, orange-painted guaguas (pronounced wah-wahs) have filtered up to 40% of each day's fares into their own pockets. Last year, in a desperate effort to replace the conductors with temptation-proof turnstiles, the company offered to retire all surplus conductors at full pay. Their union-the Sindicato de Empleados de Omnibus Aliados-refused...
...Cordell Hull (after Pearson reported, in midwar, that the Secretary of State wanted Russia "bled white"): "[a teller of] monstrous and diabolical falsehoods...
...enough to keep the Yugoslav Communist Party congress in session until 2 a.m., denouncing the Cominform, on the night before a ten-nation Danube conference met in Belgrade. Marshal Tito turned his back on the Danube conference, dominated by the Russians, and went off to resume the vacation at Bled which had been interrupted by the Cominform attack on him. Belgrade's greeting to the Danubian delegates was notably cool-no outsize pictures of Soviet leaders, no special triumphal arches in the streets...
Cried Duclos: "By these two plans all of you-small businessmen, small industrialists and tradespeople-will be thrown into the jaws of international big business. It is you, the little people, who are going to be bled white with-new taxes. . . . The bigger you are the less you pay. . . . But we, the Communist Party, will defend you and stand...
...Muse of History drew the Tsarevich to her, for he had become restless. "Poor little bleeder," she said, stroking his hair, "different only in the organic nature of your disease from so many others who have bled and died. In answer to your question, Madam," she said, glancing at the Tsarina, "I never permit my foreknowledge to interfere with human folly, if only be cause I never expect human folly to learn much from history...