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...buyers answer that service is too often lip service, fancy slogans, a brusque shop steward and an indifferent mechanic...
...Work. For young Terry Bryant, coming home from World War II, the battles of Blackie Bowman are won and done. Labor is not a cause but a kind of male club, possibly even a career. As the happy warrior of a rubber-factory local, Terry rises to shop steward only to discover that his union is run by and for a pair of labor racketeers called the Slansky brothers. Obscenely jeered and jabbed at by the younger Slansky, Terry slugs his tormentor. In seeming collusion with the Slanskys, management promptly fires Terry. Digging up his combat-fatigue history, the Slanskys...
...Blackleg!" the shop steward (Bernard Lee) rages. The factory owner (Laurence Naismith), anxious to avoid unnecessary trouble with the union, is disgusted with him, too. When the strike ends, the men vote to send the hero to Coventry. Nobody speaks to him, nobody eats with him, nobody touches work he has touched. His best friend deserts him, his wife (Pier Angeli) gets hysterical, the company pressures him to climb down and apologize. The hero holds out, he hardly knows why. "If people can't be different," he mumbles bitterly, "there's no point...
Sunday Rainstorm. While Yoshikawa did not know the date of "X-Day," he did know that it was rapidly approaching. Near the end of November, a Lieut. Commander Suguru Suzuki arrived in Honolulu disguised as a ship's steward. He called on Consul General Nagao Kita, and, "in the course of their conversation, slipped a tiny ball of crumpled rice paper into Kita's hand." The list contained 97 questions. The key question, promptly referred to Yoshikawa: "On what day of the week would the most ships be in Pearl Harbor on normal occasions?" Yoshikawa's reply...
...only man in the bake-off was awarded one of the top prizes. U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer Ramon Cabalona, who is chief steward aboard the submarine U.S.S. Catfish, won the $1,000 first prize in the pies and dessert division for his orange cream pie topped with meringue. Its name: sub-meringue...