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...perhaps best prepared to take it. As the late Novelist D. H. Lawrence's heroine, Lady Chatterly, discovered in the Midlands: "This country had a grim will of its own, and the people had guts. . . . There was something in their deep-mouthed slurring of the dialect, and the thresh-thresh of their hobnailed pit-boots as they trailed home in gangs on the asphalt from work, that was terrible and a bit mysterious." But if people are strong, factories are still vulnerable to high explosive...
Last month U. S. Trotskyites convened in Manhattan to thresh out their theological differences. The Cannonites mustered a 3-to-2 majority, expelled the protestants. Last fortnight the Schachtmanites retaliated by hurrying into print their edition of the New International, the Trotskyite diocesan monthly. Not to be outdone, the Cannonites got out an edition too, retitled the magazine Fourth International. The Cannonites managed to retain the Socialist Workers Party name. At a rousing rally last week the schismatics christened themselves the Workers Party. Both sects, though by this time as far apart as Two-Seed-in-the-Spirit Predestinarian Baptists...
...International Harvester Co., No. i U. S. farm implement manufacturer, belatedly entered the booming small-implement market with a new, light tractor selling at $515, or $225 cheaper than any previous International model. Fortnight ago it caught up with the sensationally successful market in small combines (which harvest and thresh crops in a single operation as they move through fields) by introducing a 4-ft. model priced at $405-cheapest in the U. S. save for Allis-Chalmers' 40-in., $340 combine which opened up the small-combine field five years...
...schoolmen closer together, Professor Mort appointed a committee to clarify the issues. The committee needed ten topics and 24 subdivisions to catalogue the disagreements. Last week the four businessmen and three educators sat down before an audience of professors and students in Columbia's Milbank Chapel to thresh the matter out. Flanking Dean Russell, they sprawled in their chairs, wriggled and squirmed, stared at the ceiling, never got beyond Subdivision 3 of Topic I. Crux of the argument was not education but the "private enterprise system" v. "planned economy." At the end of a full day's talk...
...face by preserving the first at least in principle, keeping a fair share of the second. Effect of the Byrnes Committee report was to lend weight to arguments on the Senate side. Two days after its release, the two tax committees met for the seventh time, settled down to thresh the matter out behind closed doors. The doors remained closed for six hours except when they opened briefly to let out the dozen or so non-legislative tax experts who normally attend all such committee conclaves, let out two hungry Senators for a hasty bite, let out the House conferees...