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...rude or, when followed...
...import trade, and 80% of shops have been communalized. Although this economic concentration in the hands of the government is capable of generating great power, Communists are finding that compared with the selective precision of private enterprise, nationalized enterprise on such a scale is often a blunt instrument. Thus Rude Pravo, central Communist Party organ, complained recently that so many sieves were being delivered to ironmongers that every family in the country would have had to buy one weekly for a year to get rid of them...
...reaction of Bill Bingham, who took the call himself, can be characterized only as extremely rude. He lost his temper, and shouted into the phone so loudly that everyone in the room at the other end could hear him. He closed by telling the student, who paid for a participation ticket: "You don't have to use our boats. We don't keep them for people like you who complain." He then hung up on the student...
...South African gold mine promoters, who had perpetrated one of the biggest swindles in their country's history (TIME, Dec. 15, 1947), last week got their comeuppance. In Johannesburg, horse-racing Norbert Stephen Erleigh, 46, and his rude, crude ex-partner, Joseph Milne, 53, were convicted on a combined total of 63 fraud and theft counts. The court said that their New Union Goldfields, Ltd., which had once controlled 160 companies valued at some ?30 million, "was, in reality, a gambling house...
Last January, to protect their trade in the Far East, the British offered to recognize the new Communist regime. They expected an eager response. They got a rude snub. China's Red masters first kept the British dangling, then, last March 3, handed British Chárge d'Affaires John C. Hutchison three extraordinary questions, implying that they would not accept British recognition unless the answers were favorable. Asked Peking...