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...organized labor, whose ability to handle its own affairs had been cast into doubt not only by the steel-union squabble but by an Electrical Workers election that saw President James Carey stepping down only after the Labor Department found that his followers had stolen votes by the carload...
...More devils can be routed by a little laughter than by a carload of humorless piety," writes Methodist Pastor Charles Merrill Smith in How to Be come a Bishop Without Being Religious (Doubleday; $3.50). The devils that Smith wants to exorcise are the phony pietism and the trivial hypocrisy that many a Protestant pastor has to indulge in if he intends to climb the hierarchical ladder of his church...
...carload of white men attempt to run down four local Negro boys...
...used by local bakers. An outbreak that affected 300 people in Washington State last year was also traced to a frozen-egg product used in lemon meringue pies. Modern mass-production methods of food processing sometimes help spread salmonella, for one bad egg, one bad chicken, can contaminate a carload. A healthy person generally gets over salmonella-caused attacks of diarrhea, vomiting and mild fever in two to five days, but in persons already weakened by other diseases, food poisoning can be fatal. In any case, say U.S. Public Health Service doctors, who share the A.M.A.'s concern about...
...FREIGHT CARLOADiNGS: Bernard Baruch is reputed to have said long ago that the surest way to gauge the whole economy is to "watch freight carload-ings." That was long before trucks and planes captured such a large share of the changing cargo market, and also before freight cars were built bigger to carry more cargo. Result: freight loadings often go down-as they have for four of the past ten weeks-at the same time that total cargo tonnage goes up. For such reasons, the Pennsylvania Railroad, the nation's largest, last week announced that it will no longer...