Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, from the British Foreign Ministry to the U.S. State Department, came a note of protest against the U.S. refusal to accept the bid by the English Electric Co. Ltd. on six generators and three transformers for the Chief Joseph project. The company spent some $60,000 to prepare its bid. It was the lowest received and it met specifications. Under ordinary circumstances, Defense Secretary Charles Wilson would have been required to accept the British bid. English Electric's offer was 16% ($964,000) below that of the lowest U.S. bidder, and U.S. purchasing officers must generally award...
...Austria, 13,000 doctors and 2,500 dentists went on a two-day strike to protest against a new law extending state health insurance to all Austrians. Hundreds of white-smocked physicians paraded through Vienna, shouting slogans. Complaints: 1,200 young doctors are jobless, the state pays only $1 per patient every three months, and doctors average only $240 a month (less overhead...
...cheering loud and long for the American middle class and blasting Bohemia and Bohemians. Wouk is a Sinclair Lewis in reverse. His chief significance is that he spearheads a mutiny against the literary stereotypes of rebellion-against three decades of U.S. fiction dominated by skeptical criticism, sexual emancipation, social protest and psychoanalytic sermonizing...
...witnesses, thought the two inmates were "smelling up the room," so he threw them outside into the 40-below cold "like a bartender bouncing a drunk." Most of the witnesses themselves helped recreate the odor of P.W. Camp 5 on placid Governors Island. Did you not protest, or try to stop it? they were asked. "No, sir,'' came hesitant replies, "I was afraid to get thrown out myself ... I couldn't help myself ... I didn't want to freeze to death." Next day, outside the hut, the two men were found "stiff, blue and dead...
...area around Johannesburg. Though the Bantu Act did not actually deprive South African Negroes of their regular schools, it imposed a curriculum that was designed to do nothing less than to convince every Negro child that he is inferior. Last April, thousands of students boycotted their schools in protest. The Minister of Native Affairs, Hendrik F. Verwoerd, one of the architects of apartheid, retaliated by closing the boycotted buildings, thus leaving some 7,000 children without any education at all. Partly to take care of these, the African National Congress sponsored its network of secret, classes...