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Iceland. The leftist coalition fell apart on methods to halt the rising cost of living and to solve a wage dispute in the important fishing industry (the Minister of Fisheries and Trade is a Communist, and most of the fish is sold to Russia). Non-Communist Premier Hermann Jonasson wanted a one-month wage-and-price freeze; the Communist-led Labor Alliance objected, and the dispute has left Iceland with no government for two weeks...
...turned around, brought in ten-month earnings of $3,440,000-despite the $2,000,000-a-year commuter deficit. So confident is Heineman that his new commuter plan will turn red ink to black that he has ordered 36 new, air-conditioned, 161-passenger commuter coaches at a cost of $5,600,000. Says Ben Heineman: "If we can provide a fast, reliable, comfortable ride, then people will ride the suburban railroad, and read the papers and relax in preference to beating their brains out against traffic. It is our conviction that by using ingenuity...
...parts of the world, except the U.S. and Canada, the boycott turned out to be little more than a token effort to dramatize how the convenience-flag vessels have cost seamen in seafaring countries thousands of jobs. While the I.T.F. estimated that around 200 vessels were hit by the boycott, the number was lower; about 125 ships were affected in the U.S., eight in Canada, 30 in Europe and the rest of the world...
...Minimum Cost...
Members of the production staff felt that the show could be produced at a minimum cost of $1295, although miscellaneous costs might bring it toward the $1600 allotted for Government Inspector. The Broadway musical, which concerns two girls seeking jobs in New York, could be adapted to a Cambridge locale, the staff suggested...