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Scheduled to end in mid-May, the campaign for funds "has been carried out almost strictly by Armenians in America over a three year period," according to Sir Hamilton A. R. Gibb, Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies...
...than a piddling $150,000 directly, Soapy turned last February to Michigan's big businessmen, many of whom deeply dislike him. To the heads of 23 corporations he sent personal letters asking them to pay in advance some $28 million in state business taxes due between mid-March and mid-May. Despite their distaste for Soapy's big-spending habits and his longstanding political palship with United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther. the corporation bosses helped out; General Motors alone put up $13 million. But this bailout only postponed the crisis...
Most serious is a strike of sugar workers that has closed down 21 sugar-cane grinding mills. Before mid-May, when seasonal rains start, 5,800,000 tons of cane must be ground in the country's 161 mills to bring in $600 million to make up the great bulk of Cuba's national income. Without the 21 closed mills, the goal cannot be met. Electrical workers were on a slowdown strike against the U.S.-owned Cuban Electric Co. They demanded higher pay, reinstatement of every employee fired since 1952 and the removal of Company President...
...production rose, unemployment fell. The Labor Department reported that the number of workers collecting unemployment compensation in mid-May decreased for five straight weeks, due partly to exhaustion of benefits, and new claims dropped for two weeks...
...mid-May meeting of the Associated Harvard Clubs in Philadelphia, the Program had garnered $39.2 million, and it is likely that the figure which President Pusey announces on Thursday will exceed $42 million. The Program is scheduled to end at Commencement...