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...Chamber, the Attlee Government with its huge Labor majority had little to fear. The greater problems lay outside, and the debates would reflect them. Even as the session got under way, the Government had to rush troops home from the Continent to help unload food cargoes when 40,000 striking stevedores refused to work. Cried Fuel Minister Emanuel Shinwell, until lately an expert in parliamentary disorder: "I am a socialist, not an anarchist, and I want order and reason in our industrial relations...
...newspapers last week, big bold advertisements for mammoth summer clearance sales fought for space with the chichi ads of the new fall fashion collections. Big & little stores everywhere were trying desperately to unload their wartime inventories. They were also trying to prove to their somewhat skeptical customers that current fashions according to the L85 fabric-conservation order are really haute couture...
...seems likely to be the greatest wheat harvest on record; 2) he will be robbed of additional tens of thousands of cars that will be sent east with relief shipments of foodstuff for Europe; 3) if shipping is not immediately available, West Coast ports may not be able to unload freight as fast as the railroads will be able to deliver...
...every Viennese was willing to die in a Nazi delaying action. The Russians reported risings of anti-Nazis within the city. Transport workers refused to unload trains. There were reports that assassins had killed Vienna's defender, tough SS General Sepp Dietrich, trusted commander of Hitler's elite bodyguard troops...
...bought the Mobeley Hotel in Cisco, Tex., on the eve of the Texas oil boom. This deal set the future Hilton pattern-step in when the boom is starting and the property value low, make it pay, unload at the peak. He applied this pattern to a long series of small Texas and New Mexico hotels, putting the profits of one into the purchase price of the next...