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Although Maryland's Millard E. Tydings, making a comeback try for his old Senate seat (24 years, 1926-50), defeated George P. Mahoney by a narrow 6,000 votes in the state's tightest senatorial primary (TIME, May 21), Mahoney won more state convention delegates. Last week, when convention time came in Baltimore, the Mahoneyites with relish and in grim retribution slashed Tydings' backers to ribbons...
...been violated by the shipment from Parke, Davis & Co. to Johns Hopkins. One thing was certain: from now on, airline pilots will want to know about it whenever they carry anything as dangerous as a ten-quart jug of polio virus. Captain Tappe's cargo was the Mahoney strain of virus, which causes most paralysis...
...Maryland, Democrat Millard E. Tydings, 66, began a comeback by edging out George P. Mahoney in the closest senatorial primary in Maryland history. He will face John Marshall Butler, who in 1950 knocked Tydings out of the Senate seat he had held for 24 years...
...outset of last year's investigation of General Motors by the Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly, New Dealing Chairman Joseph C. O'Mahoney declared that he was not out to break up G.M., but to examine it as a "case study" of economic concentration. Last week, when O'Mahoney brought out his "case study," it was less a study than a ringing attack on G.M.'s size and profits, a sharp demand for its dismemberment...
Right off, the committee proposed that G.M. split off its customer financing subsidiary, General Motors Acceptance Corp. Said O'Mahoney: "General Motors has used its financial power to obtain advantages over competitors." The committee also hinted that the Government should end G.M.'s 80% domination of the bus market, limit its expansion into such fields as diesels and earthmovers. It also suggested that G.M.'s profits are so high ("31% of its net worth" after taxes last year) that it could cut car prices. The committee overlooked the vast implications of that bit of advice: price cuts...