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After reporting for work as usual one day last week, employees of Houston's Crown Central Petroleum Corp. refinery settled down to hours of writing and rewriting lists of "grievances" against the company. It was a new sit-down technique. Explained cocky Arthur Hajecate, secretary-treasurer of the Houston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: The Pen Is Mightier | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

Why not [let] men who are down to the kitchen-door level ... do business with housewives, mechanics, retailers, schoolteachers, printers, bakers and the other millions who compose the German population?

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 11, 1949 | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

In Madras, 17-year-old Student Tiru Venkatam sat down to compose a letter to his father: "I failed my examination for the second time," he wrote. "I cannot be of any use to my family. I have decided to end my life." A few hours later, Tiru Venkatam was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Failure & Death | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

For 20 weeks the eleven Communists on trial in Manhattan for conspiracy had hankered after martyrdom or a mistrial. Their lawyers had repeatedly raked Federal Judge Harold R. Medina with harsh and measured spite. Sometimes, when their tactics seemed to be getting to him, the judge would leave the courtroom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Monstrosities & Martyrs | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

Dave Cairns, Dave Gregory, Ron Berman, Jim Downey, Bill Montague, Ed Grutzner, Steve Sharp and Tom McGrath compose the group that consistently score sweeps in the middle distances and the mile.

Author: By Arne L. Schoeller, | Title: Lining Them Up | 5/4/1949 | See Source »

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