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Within the harsh clamp of the Japanese blockade, Free China strove patiently and primitively to keep her economy breathing. A scene caught by the camera at a salt mine told part of the story...
...affable air which hides a bulldog's tenacity. As chairman of the powerful House Civil Service Committee, he recently took a look at a bill which another smiling, stubborn man, General Henry Harley Arnold, has been trying to shove through Congress. What he saw made Bob Ramspeck clamp his teeth on his pipe stem...
...Mich.) Norge Division of Borg-Warner (plane parts, vacuum pumps, valves). Last November, the War Department ordered Norge to cut back production of gun mounts. This reduced the piecework earnings of its employes. The U.A.W.A.F. of L. promptly protested, but agreed to go along if the company would clamp down on Jankowski. The union had al ready expelled Jankowski for nonpayment of dues. Now the union claimed that his great strength enabled him to work too fast. Thereby he "hogged" production, and made some $200 weekly. In the ensuing dispute, the 800 Norge workers struck for twelve days...
...protect everybody's feelings in a college community of 10,000 hard-working girls. Wisconsin-born President Shuster is no doctrinaire scholar, but a lively example of fair-mindedness. He is a Notre Dame graduate who publicly protested when Notre Dame's 'president tried to clamp university censorship on the off-campus liberal speeches of Associate Professor Francis Elmer McMahon (TIME, Dec. 20). President Shuster wrote his forthcoming book on Germany with Dr. Arnold Bergstraesser, who at California's Scripps College and the University of Chicago has had to contend with extramural attacks...
Rationing of woolens for civilians may not be necessary despite the year-long cries of "Wolf! Wolf!" Since the Truman Committee clamored for an inventory of Army textile stocks, the Quartermaster Corps decided last week to clamp a brake on its buying. For four months, beginning September, woolen mills will be permitted to cut their scheduled Army production by as much as 50%. (The Army orders are deferred to the first part...