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...surprising as it would be from most other unions. The last time David Dubinsky's union made big news (TIME, Feb. 24, 1941), it was fighting to make its employers live up to I.L.G.W.U. efficiency standards, in the hope that more efficiency would bring more profits to the chaotic industry, and more security to its labor...
...chaotic Burma last week the Jap was in a hurry, but not in too great a hurry. It was two months before the monsoons. The weather was fine now, for the Jap. It was so hot that a soldier could not lay his hand on a tank in the sun. Crashing through tindery bamboo thickets and dry rice paddies, the tanks raised clouds of dust, scaring the paddy birds and parrots. Burma's valleys run north, the direction of the Jap's main advances, but in the hot season the smaller rivers are dry, and detachments could...
...Chaotic . . . frenzied . . . !" was beekeepers' description of the honey market, as bakers, soft-drink and ice-cream makers swarmed in like flies to buy honey, which is only 75% sugar yet tastes sweeter than ordinary sugar because 40% of the sugar is in the levulose form...
India will be left in a disunited, chaotic condition by any move for independence. Withdrawal of foreign capital will ruin the young country's economy, while cleavages between Mohammedan, Hindu and northern seats will destroy any vestige of national unity, the Professor emphasized...
They flew over the chaotic tragedies of a landscape which from that height was as unpeopled as if it were in a museum case: "All that I see is the bric-a-brac of another age exhibited under a pure crystal without tremor." Saint-Exupéry, in his mind, revisited strange depths of his childhood; and meditated upon death, defeat, victory, treachery...