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...mere vision of such total automation for industry has touched off a siren of alarm among U.S. labor unions; they fear that the already swift spread toward automation will throw thousands of workers out of jobs. Before a congressional committee investigating the stock market last week (see WALL STREET), General Motors President Harlow H. Curtice took special care to debunk the bugaboo. Said he: "Automation is the making of tools to produce more efficiently . . . It's progress...
...appeals, although they were more concerned about the effect among Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's armed forces (some of whom have received individual messages), and security measures were tightened. Now the Chinese Nationalists fear that, if the impression of U.S. feebleness and indecision spreads in Asia, the Red siren calls will be so much the stronger-and will fail on ever more receptive ears...
...lamely: "I guess every person has a little larceny in his heart." Dial Tone. In Pacific Beach, Calif., telephone repairmen uncrossed the wires leading into the home of Robert J. Schroeder after Schroeder and his neighbors complained that every time his telephone rang it set off the air raid siren across the street...
...siren can't be silenced, Burke said, because they have to make sure that it is still working, and that is three times weekly...
...siren was granted the city by the Federal government on the condition that it be used only for air raid alert within the five-mile Littauer area. But even if it does, fire officials quietly wish that the protests went to Washington. After all, they say, the machine belongs to the Federal government...