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Payments are to be retroactive to the beginning of the Korean war. To pay the bills, unit commanders in Korea, already swamped with the usual paper work, must take on more to keep up the list of eligibles. For the thousands of Korean veterans who have left the front-and in many cases the service, the Pentagon must check back into company records to see who is entitled to the money. This paper work alone, the Pentagon estimates, will cost $250,000,000-more than enough to buy a supercarrier or one thousand...
Granted, there have been and will be meetings where the worst of the oratory is matched by will, whose occurrence is and will be a pall on the free world's get-togethers. A few thousand delegates from the winters of Democratic Centralism will soon sojourn in Moscow to applaud Comrade Malenkov's paean to production, and their unanimity will please no one this side of Workers' Heaven. And the fact that the snarls at Panmunjom have given way to terse announcements of adjournment, and that these brief ceremonies have shifted from a leaky tent to a wooden structure, does...
...provision for Government-run votes among employees before a union shop could be granted. But "the Act still prohibits other forms of union security" because "Congress arbitrarily said 'we know better than unions what is good for employees.' The result could have been predicted. Today several thousand employers and several million employees are operating under bootleg agreements in flagrant violation of the statute." Although Stevenson did not name it, the prohibited form of union security which is now widely bootlegged is the closed shop. The Truman Administration has made little or no effort to check this "flagrant violation...
...Reds are also working hard against Naguib. Joining hands with other malcontents, they staged a series of wild strikes, intended to rock the new regime before it could settle down. Six thousand cotton-mill workers ran amuck, smashing their looms, burning factories, stoning the police. "Treason," said Naguib. "The punishment is death." Armored cars beat back the mob; nine were killed. A military tribunal tried the ringleaders for treason...
...very large island, as big as North Africa and Asia Minor put together, and Plato located it outside the Pillars of Hercules (the Strait of Gibraltar). The land had high mountains, level plains and a network of wide canals. Its great temples were encrusted with silver and gold. Nine thousand years before Plato's time, it sank into the sea (the Atlantic...