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When the young bush nurse drove her buggy up to a tenant shack on a cattle station in Queensland, Australia, she expected to find teething trouble or an upset stomach. Instead, she found the stockman's 2½-year-old daughter lying crippled on a cot. One knee was drawn up, the foot pointed down and the heel twisted outward. One paralyzed arm lay across her chest. The nursing sister had never seen a case like it, so she drove miles to a telegraph office and wired a doctor for advice. His reply: "Infantile paralysis. No known treatment...
...useful only in the event of total mobilization. The price was $2,010,000, and Hirsch and friends paid $85,000 down. When Hirsch heard that Avco Manufacturing Corp. was looking for a plant to make plane engines for the Air Force, he signed up the company as a tenant at $725,000 a year...
...long legal battle. Federal Judge J. Joseph Smith agreed with a court-appointed committee that in reclaiming the plant, the Government must pay Hirsch & associates $3,100,000. The court ruled that the value of the plant had increased one-third the moment Hirsch signed up a tenant. Added Judge Smith pointedly: "Some provision for renegotiation of such [purchase] contracts ... to recapture large, short-term speculative profits would be desirable...
...greatest hour at Lake Success came -when Polish Delegate Julius Katz-Suchy, in a carefully prepared oration, blasted the U.S. for its lack of a land-reform program as sweeping as that of Communist Poland. John Sparkman, son of a tenant farmer and lifelong student of U.S. farm problems, was on his feet the minute Katz-Suchy sat down. With no preparation, Sparkman delivered a brilliant speech, pulling out of his head facts & figures which completely routed the Pole...
Mill on the Po could have been an excellent dramatization of the conflicts between Italian landlords and tenant farmers at the end of the nineteenth century. Recalling the first formulation of agricultural unions in the Po valley, it is a sharp, artistic portrait of the worker and his overlord. Each wrestles with the other to retain his inherited rights; yet it is clear that both are being beaten by rapid industrialization which forces everyone to abandon the traditional methods in order to survive. For two thirds of the movie each faction moves nearer and nearer to the inevitable clash...