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Mauled by the heaviest labor-lobby attack since the 1947 "slave labor" campaign against Taft-Hartley, the 30-man House Committee on Education and Labor last week approved a labor-reform bill that was even milder than the Kennedy-Ervin bill sent over from the Senate more than three months ago. G.O.P. Leader Charlie Halleck, coming from a White House conference, called the bill "a diluted version of a watered-down bill," thus fired the opening shot in the battle to force the Democratic majority in Congress to pass a strong bill or take the blame for none...
That particular bomb was tame, but burly Major Arthur Hartley. 49, whose job since World War II has been to take the bang out of bombs, says that Britain's dud problem is getting worse instead of better. Of 505 unexploded bombs still on the Home Office charts, about 50% are considered "safe." But the rest range up to 4,600-lb. "Satans" equipped with multiple fuses of fiendish design-and the British are sure that there are hundreds more buried, unnoticed, deep in the soil. In many cases, the explosive is getting more sensitive as the years pass...
Tremblers & Traps. To stay ahead of the game, Britain's bomb men must call on a vast knowledge of chemistry, a store of cold nerve, and a touch as delicate as a Piccadilly pickpocket's. Hartley's first step is to chart the bomb's precise position by magnetic detectors that reveal the depth, how big the bomb is, how it lies. The trouble is that as bombs grow older, their metal tends to polarize with the earth, cancel out fine magnetic measurements. Hartley must know that a big, blocky bomb like...
...Germans were also very nasty about anti-handling booby traps. One type of fuse was supersensitized after the bomb hit the ground, with a switch so delicate that it could operate if the bomb shell was tapped with a pencil. Hartley's men learned to outwit some mechanisms by injecting a quick-setting plastic. If the bomb is too difficult to defuse, they drill holes in its casing and melt out the explosive with live steam...
...prolonged strike could throw millions out of work and close down more industries. That would clearly be a national emergency, and reason for President Eisenhower to invoke the Taft-Hartley Act, seek a strike injunction that would bring the workers back to the plants for 80 days. Said Chairman Paul Carnahan of Great Lakes Steel Corp.: "I doubt that a settlement, when it comes, will originate with either management or the union. We will have to wait until an air of crisis begins to develop nationally...