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...Wine, liquor and cigarettes were removed from the food baskets going down to the strikers. As the air below grew staler, officials from three unions were deep in consultation with the mineowners up above. The unions agreed to accept the government expert's word. The company agreed to suspend all dismissals for a month, to grant severance pay of 200,000 lire ($320) to anyone quitting voluntarily, and to give six days' holiday pay to all the strikers. At week's end, after 40 days in the darkness 171 squinting miners climbed out at the shaft head...
...power to reimpose them. Some of the bill's authors also thought that they had removed the FRB's Regulation X, which curbs housing credit, and many newspapers so reported. Later, Congressmen discovered that the bill actually preserves this regulation. However, it provides that the President must suspend the regulation after any quarter in which the annual rate of housing starts falls below 1,200,000. Since this is the second highest rate in history, and starts are now slightly below that level, it looked as if the regulation would go off in October and houses could again...
President Quincy then announced, "Numbers in a literary institution are by no means an unqualified blessing," and proceeded to suspend the entire sophomore class for a year...
Cash & Gadgets. These questions, says Dr. Buttrick, the educators do not answer, for "recent education has almost deified an attitude of suspended judgment, blind to the fact that while suspended judgment may be possible in matters of opinion or unfinished scientific research, it is not possible on any deeper level of life. We may suspend judgment . . . about the cause of the sudden inroad of lamprey eels in Lake Michigan, but we cannot suspend judgment on whether to steal or be honest, or on whether man is a mechanism or a soul...
...such split-second cooling, Luyet and his associates built a kind of miniature ducking stool. With it they suspend bits of animal tissue and plant leaves over a container of liquid nitrogen kept at -320° F. One brief duck, and the cooling process is complete. Muscle tissue from the hearts of chick embryos has been successfully frozen by the clucking stool and later brought to life...