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...allies were crippled. The Monarchists took 26 more seats (for a total of 40) away from the Christian Democratic right-and thereby earned themselves the bitter enmity of Democrat de Gasperi. By a hair, 55,000 votes out of 28 million, the De Gasperi coalition missed winning the parliamentary bonus which De Gasperi's electoral reform law held out to any party or coalition winning more than 50% of the popular vote. De Gasperi could not assemble a majority to govern...
...really had won, and the voters didn't know it. That startling fact illustrates the present muddle of Italian politics. The De Gasperi coalition actually polled more than a majority of the gross vote-some 52%-and was entitled to a bonus, which would have given De Gasperi 657 of the seats. He did not claim it. The Communists had cannily challenged 1,300.000 ballots-three times more than they challenged in the 1948 elections. The bulk of the questioned ballots are known to be legally pro-De Gasperi, entitling the democratic coalition to about 70 seats held...
...strike was quiet and orderly, almost friendly. Members of Kankoro (the government workers' union, mostly railway and communications employees) were out for a 15% pay increase and a year-end bonus of two months' pay instead of one. In Tokyo's mauve smog, the ruddy flames of the strikers' torches and the yellow glow of their Japanese lanterns mingled with the downtown neon lights. Blue-helmeted police grinned at the Kankoro paraders and chatted amiably. Chances for a favorable settlement were good: Prime Minister Yoshida's conservative coalition government knew that the workers needed...
...consistently made money except for two depression and two World War II years when seven of her freighters were sunk. Since 1946. SAL has paid annual dividends of 15%, and last year tossed in a 25% stock bonus. As an unsubsidized line, SAL does not have to buy in Sweden if prices are less elsewhere. The Kungsholm was built in Holland of German steel, uses Danish diesels and U.S. air conditioning...
...black." Griffiths told the court that he kept a Scoreboard in his officers' mess, recording the number of Mau Mau kills and captures. His company was aiming to raise its total to 50 kills, and to encourage his men he offered them a five-shilling (70?) bonus for every Mau Mau shot. Welsh Sergeant Major William Llewellyn, an eyewitness, testified that Captain Griffiths fired at one of two prisoners until the bullets "practically poured out of the man's stomach." And as he fired, said the sergeant, the captain shouted: "When the [Mau Mau] killed my horse...