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...running battle, Chiang Kai-shek's airmen machine-gunned and bombed the blockade-running ships, strewed clusters of floating mines in their path. Last week Hong Kong's merchants gave up, for the time being stopped further shipments to Red ports. The Nationalists' score: three ships sunk, two ships damaged, one ship captured. The casualties included vessels flying the British, Panamanian, Norwegian and Greek flags. By week's end more mines sighted in the Formosa straits caused the Communists to close the port of Shanghai to all shipping...
Already the water engineers have sunk four successful wells in the Chandigarh Valley-in each case the site was pointed out by the traditional Hindu water diviner. After the September monsoons, building will start on government employees' housing. Says the Punjab's Chief Minister Gopi Bhargava: "It will be the world's most charming capital...
...Chrysler negotiators pointedly avoided the amenities which usually accompany the end of a labor-management battle. They held separate press conferences to announce the outcome. When photographers pressed Walter Reuther and his aides to pose with Chrysler officials, he angrily dismissed them: "The attitude of the corporation . . . has sunk to a new low. We would not dignify the company by posing with them...
...Doherty's expansion had been wiser than Wall Street realized. He had sunk his borrowed millions into valuable operating properties, had foreseen the tremendous future of natural gas and invested heavily in it. And perhaps the wisest thing done by Doherty, who was bedridden for almost a decade before his death in 1939, was to put in "Pete" Jones to boss the company, and raise it from what seemed to be its ashes...
...quite so bright as Labor's. Churchill had once more reminded Britons of their lack of leadership in world crisis. Worried one Laborite: "If Joe Stalin were to come out now and say, 'Fine, let's have a talk,' we'd be sunk...