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Acid Bulbs. Last month the British-owned tramways provided just such a provocation. To give its workers a bonus and cost-of-living allowance, the company increased the fare by one pice (one-third of a cent). Bengalis objected, and the Communists made haste to exploit the issue...
...were the most understanding. The majority of commentators pointed out the glaring disparity between the large sums of American money spent for Italian economic reconstruction and the apparent ingratitude of Italians in voting either left or right. Without minimizing the failure of the coalition parties to gain the bonus for extra seats, I would like to add a few comments from the Italian viewpoint. More than 93% of the 28 million Italian voters turned out for the election. Isn't this an alltime record, especially for a country which has been a democracy only since 1946? Furthermore, Italians...
...narrow edge in the Senate, but, though the leading party, failed by 57,000 votes to get a clear popular majority in the Chamber of Deputies. Had those comparatively few votes swung his way, De Gasperi's hard-fought electoral-reform law would have given him a bonus of about 80 seats. As it was proportional representation gave him a 16-seat Chamber majority-enough to govern warily but not boldly...
...with 1,000 shares of stock in Christiana Securities Co., the holding company that controls Du Pont. The stock was then worth about $1,000,000 (current value: $6,500,000). But that, said Greenewalt, was a Du Pont gesture "to give an employee incentive, just like any other bonus...
...celebrate Gnmdlovsdag, Danes held a public holiday, and amnestied 25 criminals. As a bonus, Heiress Apparent Margrethe got a day off from high school...