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...husband will come back safely in the morning." Of all whites, the police are most hated by the blacks. Next come the Pass Office officials, then the state-employed railwaymen. These are the whites with whom the blacks come into most frequent and most painful contact. At railway stations and on trains, blacks are joyfully cuffed about by low-paid whites...
...crowds were already gathering. In response to manifestoes issued by the General Confederation of Labor (C.G.T.), provincial workers were beginning to stream into the capital. Transportation by train, plane, ship or bus was free. When the great day came, free buses and taxis would be waiting at piers and railway stations. Also free to the visitors: food, drinks, futbol games, boxing matches, variety shows, movies...
...President read the citation: After the Inchon landing, armed only with a .45-cal. pistol, Marine Commiskey charged two enemy machine-gun emplacements near Seoul and killed seven North Koreans in hand-to-hand fighting. Unscathed then, he was hit a week later by shell fragments in the Seoul railway station, went back into battle after that, was wounded again in December...
...Some other salaries (not including expense accounts): the Railway Clerks' President GEORGE M. HARRISON, $35,000, to be boosted to $76,000 if the Salary Stabilization Board approves; JOHN L. LEWIS, $50,000; JAMES C. PETRILLO, $46,000; WILLIAM GREEN and PHILIP MURRAY...
...boom is on in Montana. The Shell Oil Co. struck petroleum on land leased from the Northern Pacific Railway in northeastern Montana's Dawson County, and speculators were hustling in last week to snap up the remaining drilling rights on a million acres of surrounding territory. Oilmen are excited about the strike because it is the first commercial well to tap the Montana section of Williston Basin, a vast layer of sedimentary rock under much of. North and South Dakota, Montana, and parts of Canada. The well is only 100 miles from Tioga, N. Dak., where the first strike...