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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Their statistics proved that IQ49, even including the Dallas crash, could still be one of the scheduled airlines' safest years, with 1.2 deaths per 100 million passenger miles. Every speaker at the luncheon sidestepped the ugly word "crash" until hard-bitten Eddie Rickenbacker, president of Eastern Air Lines, got up, threw away his prepared text and adlibbed: "Crashes are the price you pay for motion...
...frustrated Lawyer Hallinan tried by every trick he knew to rattle Schomaker, and found himself instead an unwilling straight man in Shoes Schomaker's comic routine. Hallinan tried to show that Shoes had too good a memory of events that took place years ago: "You even said Bridges got out on the left side of the car and you got out on the right." "I guess Bridges was more left than I was," cracked the witness...
...when foggy hope of cooperation between the democracies and Communism swirled everywhere, labor unions of 56 nations got together in Paris and set up the World Federation of Trade Unions. The organization included Soviet Russia's state-run "unions," big Communist-infiltrated unions like those in France and Italy, and genuinely democratic labor organizations. Early this year, emerging out of the postwar fog of confusion, Western labor finally fully realized that the only way to "cooperate" with Communists is to submit to them. The U.S.'s C.I.O. and Britain's T.U.C. (Trades Union Congress) walked...
...could not sell their properties except at state-fixed prices. There was no unemployment or serious want, but wage and salary earners worked at income levels which smothered incentive: a ship's cook often earned more than a ship's captain; bus drivers, postmen and newspaper reporters got more or less the same pay. Taxes ate away people's earnings. Many imports, especially automobiles, were rationed, leaving popular demand unsatisfied. Thousands of young New Zealanders emigrated to find freer opportunities abroad...
Opposition to the Socialists had been growing steadily for ten years. Their parliamentary majority had declined. As 1949's campaign got under way, Labor candidates faced dissatisfied audiences that insistently harried them with heckling questions. How much more was Socialism going to cost? Why were government ministers riding in U.S. limousines while ordinary folks couldn't get cars? An Auckland newspaperman called it "the revolt of the guinea pigs...