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...Aviv grocery store and asked him to come along for an important conference. They drove him to a schoolhouse in an abandoned Arab village. There, three Haganah officers charged him with furnishing his British superiors in the electric company with a list of important users of current in Jerusalem; that list, passed on to the Arabs, supposedly guided the Arab Legion's artillery fire to the city's most important targets...
Tobiansky admitted that at his superiors' request he had drawn up the list, which included hospitals, the newspaper Palestine Post, military establishments with radio installations. But Tobiansky pleaded that the list had merely been intended to show which electric current users were to have priority in case the city's power had to be curtailed. His Haganah superiors approved of the list...
Incalculable Forces. Dr. Schweitzer was equally confident about man's ability to weather his current storms. The great problem of modern times, he said, is "to safeguard the integrity of the individual within the modern state." The great modern conflict: "Personality versus collectivity . . . [They are] fighting everywhere. Collectivism in its various forms has deprived the individual of his individuality...
Despite its size, the Du Pont chain of command which Tom Clark wanted to dismember was simple. The Du Pont family controls the Christiana Securities Co. (TIME, Feb. 21), a holding company in which anyone can buy stock (current bid price: $3,050 a share). Christiana Securities Co., plus other holdings of the Du Pont family, control E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. In turn, Du Pont controls General Motors Corp. through its 10 million shares of G.M. stock. Du Pont and G.M. together own Kinetic Chemicals, Inc., a maker of refrigerants; G.M. and Standard Oil Co. (N.J.) own Ethyl...
Heavy Load. Investors liked the idea; they could get their money out at any time at the current value of their shares. Securities salesmen liked it even more; the handsome 7½% commission gave them three to four times the profit they could make by handling individual securities. Other brokers were quick to catch on, and soon M.I.T. had some imitators...