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...delighted; in March the President formally upheld confiscation of 233,973 acres of the company's best reserve and fallow banana-growing lands. Now Red-led peasants are demanding 224,000 acres of the other big Unifruit plantation, and the company may eventually have to fold its $50 million Guatemalan operation...
...Social Democrats in 1919 and never got over its splintering ways. In split No. 2, in 1926, most of the original Communists went back to the socialists. In split No. 3, the Kilbom Communists (after their leader, Karl Kilbom) seceded; the majority eventually returned to the Social Democratic fold, others became pro-Nazis. In 1949 there was a new splintering: Party Boss Sven Linderot was ousted by the triumvirate of Set Persson, Hilding Hagberg and Fritiof Lager. In each case, the cause of the breakup was opposition to Soviet domination of the party...
...present, Harvard remains the lone university in the Boston area not in the AFL fold. The AFL drive is the first since its defeat two years ago, and the largest yet made at the University...
...shock to ex-Boss Odlum. But Convair still has a backlog of more than $1 billion in orders for its military planes and its pressurized Convair 340 transport. Last year it netted $10,400,000, close to its World War II peak ($12,300,000). With Convair in the fold, Hopkins hopes to make General Dynamics both general, dynamic, and radioactive...
...unexpected resignation was presented to a special executive board meeting yesterday and accepted immediately. It came in the middle of the first push in two years by the A.F. of L. to bring the independent HUERA into its fold...