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...folly of Government controllers, who argued that wages could be continually raised without an increase in prices. The strike was provoked by the decision of the Administration's "impartial" fact-finding committee to give the union an even bigger raise than it expected-plus the union shop to boot. When the industry refused, Mobilizer Charles Edward Wilson, General Electric's ex-president, tried to stave off the strike with a deal to give the steelmakers a price raise to match the wage increase. President Truman okayed the deal, then backed down, leaving Wilson no choice but to quit...
Every U.S. boy used to be raised on such firewater, with Injuns thrown in to boot. Any who feel like a fresh snort from the old jug could do worse than sample this Australian distillation. Wild Colonial Boys is written in standard Wild West prose; it begins banging almost from the start, and is still banging after more than 600 pages of close print. The blurb on the jacket says it "should be read by every Australian, for it casts a new light on our national heritage." For once, the b -----(for bloody) blurb is right...
...night as he was lying in bed he decided that Lady Wonder had just gotten her words a little garbled in transmission. She had really meant Field & Wilde's water pit, an abandoned local quarry. It all came to him, said Ferrazzi later "just like a boot in the rear end." He hurried to tell Dewing. So last week the quarry was drained and the boy's body was found...
TIME'S research staff should be brought before the Old Man for Office Hours. Any recruit will have learned the hard way, long before he is given his first liberty in "greens," not to let himself be seen with his collar ornaments "dragging anchor." TIME avoided this common boot mistake, but committed one almost as grave by showing General Shepherd, on the cover, with his eagle looking...
...invariably drinks a cup of tea on rising and takes an icy shower immediately afterward. At his mess, grace is said before each meal. He insists that his shoes be coated with a combination of vaseline and boot polish at night, left fallow until morning and then polished vehemently for maximum glitter. He fondly hopes that Marine officers will once more take to carrying swagger sticks, and in the field he is never without his own oversized version, a polished length of Haitian Coco-macaque wood. His hobbies are muscular: riding, spearfishing, fly-casting. A red-handled fly swatter reposes...