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...sheetmaking department (which employs 1,000 of his 3,500 workers) "as long as it remains profitable." Little also picked up some ammunition for his case against New England's easygoing textile workers. When he offered to keep the entire plant open if the workers would accept a heavier work load and increase production, the C.I.O. Textile Workers Union called the proposal an insult...
...Peace? Hatred of America is systematically inculcated in Russians. The U.S. Embassy in Moscow (relates Welles) never locks its front door-because the penalties for associating with Americans are far heavier than the penalties for theft. He recalls Lenin's words: "We cannot live in peace; memorial services will either be sung over the Soviet republic or world capitalism." Welles nevertheless believes that war with Russia can be avoided forever if the U.S. will help non-Communist countries to help themselves...
Every British radio owner pays an annual fee of ?1. BBC operates on only three wave lengths: the "Light" (mostly variety shows and dance music), the "Home" (slightly heavier fare), and the "Third Program" (strictly cultural). Thousands of listeners add to BBC revenues by buying BBC publications. Radio Times, a sort of fan magazine and weekly listing of programs, has a 6,000,000 circulation; The Listener, which reprints BBC talks, goes to 140,000; London Calling is subscribed to by 16,000 listeners overseas...
...each of his three great decisions, 1915, 1938 and 1948, Benes did what seemed best at the time. No contemporary of Benes, anywhere, had a right to brand him as wrong. Yet as it worked out, his beloved Czechs today live under a yoke infinitely heavier than Franz Josef...
...says Brown, the thing is about to happen again. The ice in the Antarctic is getting thicker and heavier. The earth is wobbling. Soon the great slosh will come. Most of mankind will be drowned and the rest will enjoy new climates...