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During the war all unions had agreed not to attempt organizing Oak Ridge workers. But now the battle was on, with Army observers attending union meetings. The C.I.O. boasted of 100 new members a day; A.F.L. claimed 50% of the plant, eliminated initiation fees to grab more members...
...Grab & Run. An ardently anti-Communist American lawyer in Shanghai remarked to me the other night: "The Gov ernment is not a government. It is a dirty, venal lot of officials trying to get what they can while the getting is good. They have lost their confidence...
Venality, it must be added, extends to Americans too. The desire to grab and run is almost universal in Shanghai today and transcends racial and national lines; the faith that prompts long-term investments is lacking. An American dentist, who came to practice in Shanghai, sold his dental equipment for more profit than he could make in a few years of practice, and went home. A foreign businessman who bought a house for 13,000 U.S. dollars last fall sold it recently for 136,000 and has gone home to retire. The first 1946 Chrysler sedan to arrive in Shanghai...
...Operation Grab-Bag" was no joke. Its announced reason: to break up a Nazi smuggling ring. Unannounced reason: to break down a Russian veto...
...Grab-Bag" was not a famous victory. But just possibly it would convince the Russians that the U.S. meant business in Central Europe...