Word: ups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Boss of the new organization is plump, pink-cheeked General Secretary Jacobus Hendrik Oldenbroek, 52. Born in Amsterdam, he grew up in London and Hamburg, where his father, a cigarmaker, had set up shop. Beginning work at 14, as a clerk, he moved on to trade-union journalism, eventually headed...
Ten Thousand Men. A wild boom began as a horde of lease-hungry oil speculators and scores of Yant's once disgruntled suckers (many of whom had never filed their deeds) converged on the canyon. The results were spectacular. Amid angry litigation set off by the rush, the California...
Last week in London, the I.C.F.T.U. (International Confederation of Free Trade Unions) formally set itself up in business. In spite of some fraternal squabbles and a contest between American and British delegates for domination of the new labor international, the organization's birth pangs were relatively mild. It had...
Far East Cominform. "An unpleasant shape of things to come in Chinese foreign policy is ... gradually emerging . . . The Peking conference of Asian and Australasian trade unions [held Nov. 16-Dec. 1] marked out the main lines on which Chinese Communist activity is to develop. This conference . . . declared its support for...
"What is most striking in the new 'Chinese Cominform' program is that it is to be applied over a region in which the Chinese imperial monarchy formerly held a kind of paramount position, and in which large Chinese communities have been built up in modern times by emigration...