Word: complaint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other industries, said Barnes, his Antitrust Division will start new suits. He has already started some. In July he began a new prosecution against Aluminum Co. of America, whose onetime monopoly had been declared ended after one of the most protracted suits on record (TIME, June 12, 1950). The complaint charged that Alcoa's contract to import 600,000 tons of Canadian aluminum from its divorced ex-subsidiary, Aluminium Ltd. of Canada, was an attempt to bring the two together in a new monopoly. When gasoline and fuel oil prices rose two months ago, Barnes sent FBI agents around...
...accumulated bitterness and hatred of pent-up men fighting to survive in an enemy prison. In front of movie cameras and a battery of correspondents, last week's returnees charged that some of their buddies in the Communist prison camps had turned informers. What was new about their complaint was the added complication of buddies converted to Communism...
President Eisenhower last week named South Carolina's Governor James Byrnes to be one of five U.S. delegates to the eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. Howls of protest rose. Chief complaint: Byrnes is one of the South's best-known champions of race segregation; as governor, he pledged his administration to abandon South Carolina's public-school system if the Supreme Court outlawed segregation in the schools. The U.N.'s General Assembly contains many Asian and African delegates explosively sensitive on the subject of race. Sample protests in telegrams to the President...
...married a fellow of 25, and seven years later find I am mated to a Boy Scout. This is certainly no cause for complaint. My husband is [attached to] Post 48, Greece Baptist Church, Greece...
Away from their grey skyscraper office on Manhattan's teeming 4?nd Street last week, the editors of a thriving monthly magazine got ready for a weekend of work without a mutter of complaint. One editor was off to Newport, R.I. to sail his 58-ft. yawl Caribbee in the 466-mile, 30-boat race to Annapolis, Md. The editor of the magazine headed for Norwalk, Conn., where he climbed aboard a launch and ran the weekly sailboat race of the Norwalk Yacht Club. Two of the magazine's ad staff were out on Long Island Sound racing...