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...head of this segment of the stricken coal industry, Edward R. Burke, told a reporter that "a very considerable number of coal companies" had filed applications with the government to slap individual fines of $1 and $2 a day for every day that a miner stays out. The amount would vary under the contract by regions...
Catholic Centrist M.R.P., and its leader, President Georges Bidault, a resounding slap. Only one-third of its members voted for the Constitution the party had cosponsored. The Socialists also were divided, but the Communists, as usual, voted in a disciplined phalanx...
...Russians are getting impatient. They are beginning to suspect that their heavy investment of monetary and moral support for SED has been unsound. In addition to the Sedists' relatively poor performance at the polls, several political divergencies have appeared. Foreign Minister Molotov recently had to slap down a suggestion by SED Leader Otto Grotewohl that Poland might give up some of the German territory she got at Potsdam. Grotewohl also objects mildly to Russia's super-combine of German industries in the Russian zone (TIME, Aug. 26) and to her peace-delaying tactics (cried he in an interview...
This wrist-slap satisfied no one but the Army's brasshats, who were only too glad to see the whole unsavory mess over & done with. The prosecution privately argued that the sentence was ludicrously mild. The defense insisted that the court had actually found Defendant Kilian guilty of neglect of duty, a charge not filed against him. Said one sarcastic G.I. spectator: "We're going to take up a collection to pay the poor guy's fine...
...railroads have taken many a slap from the airlines, and turned the other cheek. Last week at least one road had heard enough of the airline slogan "It's Cheaper...