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This ambitious project was the brainchild of Fred G. Gurley, 63, Santa Fe president and a U.S.C. trustee. Boss of 65,000 employees and 13,000 miles of track, Gurley had watched his railroad prosper, but with the uneasy suspicion that it was failing in a primary duty: to help its personnel understand the free-enterprise economy in which they operate. Last spring Gurley suggested that U.S.C.'s President Fred D. Fagg Jr. organize a new course just for the Santa...
...think about needing the tin and tungsten of Malaya, or the uranium of the Belgian Congo or the tin of Bolivia. We felt, rather, independent and alone . . . But now we realize the world is a great interdependent, complex entity . . . We have learned no part of us can prosper, no nation can really in the long fun be at peace and have security unless others enjoy the same...
...look me up sometimes, I'm a piano player and a rounder, a whisky drinker and a pavement pounder. I'll teach you some good bad habits. You'll need 'em." Author Ellison knows all about the mountebanks and charlatans, political and otherwise, who prosper in Harlem, and his examples (especially Ras the Exhorter, who fancies himself as a black Messiah) are richly drawn. The book's final scene, a Harlem riot, has the sweep of an epic nightmare...
...1930s hit him hard. In 1934, President Cardenas' land-reform program expropriated most of his holdings. Said Peters, philosophically: "The people need the land more than I do." Today his income is $58 a month-just about enough to live on. But if Peters has not continued to prosper, the pineapples have. Cuttings from Peters' original plants now produce 40,000 to 60,000 tons of pineapples a year, supplying four local canning factories...
...Washington, Federal Judge Edward A. Tamm slapped a $75,000 fine on the brotherhood after it pleaded guilty to contempt of court for pulling its paralyzing "sick" strike (TIME, Feb. 19) in defiance of a federal injunction. Said Judge Tamm: "If unions are to continue to grow and prosper they must accept their responsibilities as well as their rights...