Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dying City. Despite Ta Rung Pao's complaint, Shanghai was well on the way to becoming an economic graveyard. Industrial production was down an estimated 50%, and still falling. "The Chin Chong Iron Works," read an item in the press, "is trying to sell electric fans for 30,000 jenminpiao each (about $12 U.S.), which is only sufficient to cover labor costs, but there are no buyers...
Slow Burn. In Westerly, R.I., Mrs. Carrie M. Crandall wrote to the city clerk of Worcester, Mass, with a complaint: "About 1889 or 1890 I fell into an open coal chute in front of the Hotel Pleasant...and I think the city should pay me something for my injuries...
...bright blue morning last week, the crew of a National Airlines DC-4 had cause to file an indignant complaint: "three Grumman-type fighters" buzzed their plane as they were passing over Dover, Del. Another complaint soon followed : the captain of an Eastern Air Lines Constellation reported that a Navy fighter howled toward his ship "on a collision course" as it was passing near Willow Grove, Pa. and did not veer off until it was only 150 yards away...
Meanwhile, the Chilean Foreign Ministry had received an angry complaint from the Peruvian embassy over the moving of the ambassador's wreaths. The chief of protocol had already donned his white gloves for a trip to the Alameda to correct this outrage when news of the stolen garlands reached him. He sensibly decided to await further developments...
...week's end, the Apristas appeared to have scored heavily. Seoane had lodged a complaint of criminal larceny against Elguera, who was expected to be recalled to Peru. And, as partial satisfaction, the mayor's office had authorized the Apristas to lay another wreath at the O'Higgins statue on Aug. 20, the Liberator's birthday...