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Note of Cheer. In his friendliest, let's-be-reasonable manner, "Hump" Mitchell turned the delegation down. Removal of wage control, he said, would breach the Government's anti-inflation barrier. Hump shifted his spectacles to his nose's tip, wagged a warning forefinger: "If you give effect to this [strike] policy, you will be endangering the organizations you represent." On that note the interview ended...
Britain's diplomatic cleanup man had another vanquished crisis under his belt. Beaming baronially as he deplaned in Amsterdam last week after an 8,900-mile flight from Batavia, hump-nosed, ruddy Lord Inverchapel (Sir Archibald Clark Kerr in his pre-peerage days) gave a thumbnail report on his Indonesian peacemaking excursion. The Indonesians, he said, "really want the Dutch to stay." Indonesian Premier Sjahrir is "wise, cool and reasonable." Modestly he summed up his own efforts-to create an atmosphere in which the Indonesians and The Netherlands Indies Acting Governor General van Mook could get together. "It cost...
...undergraduate editors, on October 4, 1918, formally announced their intention to close up shop for the duration. But the momentum of the presses had hardly petered out when a group of graduate editors, on October 24, seized the reins and boosted a weekly Crimson over the two-month hump until-returning editors could take over once more...
...venture out. Pointing out that the presidential C-54 has greater power, range and operating ceiling than ordinary commercial airliners, Colonel Myers said the flight was "routine," that he was amazed at the adverse comment. But the critics, knowing that some pilots would gladly try flying the Hump in a blizzard just for the hell of it, were not silenced...
...maps during the war; the Navy and the Aeronautical Chart Service lost count. Inedible, but no less valuable, were huge rubber relief maps of enemy territory which could be rolled up like a rug. For castaways on life rafts: charts on rubberized cloth. For flyers over "the Hump": a cloth map with a request for aid printed on it in Chinese, Burmese, Lisu, Kachin, Hindustani, Bengali-and English...