Word: reports
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even London's Conservative and independent press had misgivings about so rigid a course. Said the Economist in one of its sharpest attacks on the government to date: the Devlin report "was testimony to British justice and fair play. It could even have been regarded as a feather in the cap of the government that set [it] up. Instead, the government's response has been roughly, 'Tell the truth and shame the Devlin.' Politics has overridden the appearance of detached justice. Mr. Macmillan has involved the whole credit of himself and his government...
Personal Regards. From the start, partly because of a genuine distaste for meddling with a democratically elected government and partly out of a fear of what the Communists might do in retaliation, Prime Minister Nehru balked at taking action. When Kerala's governor finally sent in a report that things had got out of hand, Nehru still hoped to persuade Namboodiripad to resign in peace. Namboodiripad himself talked as if he wanted to-but was talked out of it by higher Red authority...
Worse yet, young Red "agricultural experts" set impossibly high production quotas for the communes, drove man and beast so hard that abnormal numbers of cattle and water buffalo began to die of overwork. As for the peasants, reported Canton's Nan-fang Duily sadly, "quite a few commune members were found not to care very much about production quotas." By last June. Agriculture Minister Liao Lu-yen found himself obliged to report that, so far in 1959, land planted to food grains was running 1,300,000 acres behind 1958-a fact that promised to cost China...
After this long and emotional indictment, Kassem wound up the press conference by saying that military press censorship would be lifted for one day so that Baghdad papers could report the press conference as they wished. He would be interested to see what would appear. With that, Kassem, without a smile, departed. As usual, crowds on Rashid Street dogtrotted beside his familiar Chevrolet station wagon, cheering, applauding and chanting praiseful slogans. But this time they were rewarded by neither a grin nor a wave...
Bethlehem Steel set new records with second-quarter profits of $1.59 v. 61/ last year, first-half profits of $2.64 v. $1.13 last year. President Arthur B. Homer reported that Bethlehem's billings of $1.4 billion for the first half also touched new highs; so did production, which was running at 97% of capacity just before the steel strike. From Republic Steel Chairman Charles M. White came another record report to round out the picture: the nation's third largest steel firm ran up quarterly earnings of $2.57 a share v. 98? last year, half-year earnings...