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Muscle-Flexing. The strike cost Fleet Street upwards of $8,000,000, and the Star, Evening News and Evening Standard were forced to raise prices a halfpenny to recoup some of their lost revenue. It also taught British publishers a hard lesson in Communist tactics. The strike was called against all members of the Newspaper Proprietors' Association by the Communist-dominated Electrical Trades Union and the Amalgamated Engineering Union, whose London locals are also under Communist influence...
...million, which the Treasury expects to recoup from toll charges. Eventually, by dredging the Detroit, St. Clair and St. Mary's rivers, ocean shipping may be able to reach Duluth and Canadian towns in the western reaches of Lake Superior...
...become. The loss of the vast Sudan last year brought a hardening of British attitudes in Suez and Kenya. Communist revolt in Malaya made drastic action certain when other Reds made trouble in British Guiana. Not surprisingly, postwar Britain has turned to its colonies to 1) recoup its economy, and 2) restore its prestige. British Africa, with the bulk of the empire's area and population, gets top priority...
Darkness fell on the varsity and Tufts baseball teams after seven innings yesterday afternoon, but not before the Crimson had made somewhat of a recoup for an 8 to 8 tie. Coach Stuffy McInnis used three pitchers--all of variable quality--in holding the Jumbos to eight hits...
...government hired another Washington lawyer, Max Ball, an oil specialist who helped write Israel's oil legislation. The bill permits foreign private oil companies to drill in Turkey under 50-year leases, pay the Turkish government only a modest royalty on the oil and gas produced, until they recoup their investment. After that, the company and the government split the net profits. An important feature: instead of granting a nationwide concession to a single company or syndicate, the bill guarantees competition by keeping the door open to newcomers, and by limiting the area of each company's leases...