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...year-old A.L.P.A. is the world's most gilded and exclusive union. Its members earn salaries like $9,000 (pilot on a domestic run) and $12,000 (senior pilot on a transatlantic schedule). Most of them shudder at the thought of taking in other airline employes such as mechanics or clerks. But they have their own airtight method of enforcing a closed shop...
Some of the advice looked suspiciously ill-chosen. There was good reason to believe that Harry Truman, who has repeatedly stated that he wants the Government to interfere as little as possible, would shudder at the thought of sabotaging the free enterprise system. Yet many observers believed that his fact-finding proposal, with its implications of pegging wages to a company's earnings, would do just that in the long run. And here was Harry Truman asking his citizenry to rise up and demand...
...Christmas Day there was peace, if not good will, among men of the Holy Land. Then, two nights after Christmas, Jerusalem, Jaffa, Tel Aviv felt the shudder of bombs...
...they knelt before their household shrine and with ceremonial swords committed hara-kiri by eviscerating themselves. Later, Americans, shocked and baffled when trapped Japanese soldiers blew themselves to bits with hand grenades, or Japanese civilians drowned themselves rather than surrender, might recall General Nogi's act, with a shudder...
President Truman quickly assured the world that he intended no basic change in U.S. foreign policy, and the world believed him.* Yet even as he took the oath, the shudder of inevitable change ran through the whole international fabric...