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...said the FBI, who recruited his brother-in-law, David Greenglass, for the spy ring (TIME, June 26) when Green-glass was on furlough from his sergeant's duties at the Los Alamos A-bomb project. Rosenberg tore the top of a Jello box in half, gave a piece to Greenglass as his badge of identification and told him that his contact at Los Alamos would produce the other half. The contact turned out to be Spy Courier Harry Gold, the Philadelphia chemist, who got atomic-energy data from Greenglass and paid...
When Postmaster General Donaldson announced (TIME, May 1) that he was going to fire or furlough 10,000 postal employees and cut home deliveries down to one a day, many a member of Congress thought the Postmaster General was maneuvering them up against an electric fence in an effort to get more appropriations and higher postal rates. Last week the Senate's Post Office Committee 1) resolved unanimously to ban reduction of mail service, and 2) reported out a bill by which the reduction order could be forbidden by law. Since the Senate Appropriations Committee was also...
...Navy seemed unable to silence truculent Captain John G. Crommelin, but it could at least slow him down. Airman Crommelin, told to stop denouncing unification and the "Prussian-minded" Department of Defense, had disobeyed. Last week Chief of Naval Operations Forrest Sherman ordered him placed on indefinite furlough at half pay, beginning next month. The order, by stripping Crommelin of his flight pay and allowances, will reduce his monthly paycheck from $1,041.75 to $334.87. Obviously the Navy hoped Crommelin would take the hint and leave active service: he was eligible to retire at $452.08 a month, based...
...while in the U.S. on furlough, Sam Higginbottom decided that he could best help India after making a serious study of agriculture. Three years later, armed with a degree in agriculture from Ohio State University, he returned to teach the Indians how to farm...
Lawrence had found a way to ease its labor pains a little. Instead of laying men off, the mills furloughed men in rotation. For the weeks of furlough, each worker marched over to the unemployment office and drew unemployment pay from the state. (Except for the first layoff each year, Massachusetts does not require a waiting period.) Explained Al Bradstreet, a weaver in American Woolen's Wood mill: "I'm off one week in three. When I'm off, I get $25 plus $2 for each of the three kids. Nobody wants this...