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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opening sessions of the Hawaiian legislature go, last week's was positively funereal. Only two hula dancers-instead of the usual two dozen-undulated through the halls of Iolani Palace, threading in & out the aisles around the legislators. There was only one band and one glee club to accompany them. The 30 members of the house and their 15 colleagues in the senate dispensed with the normal rounds of comradely hotfoots and other such capers and grimly got down to business...
After writing his story, Neville had turned it over as usual to the Argentine post office for transmission to the U.S. Instead, the post office turned it over to General Arturo Bertollo, who as chief of the Argentine police was the target of the deputies' charges. Although Juan Perón insists that there is no censorship in Argentina,* his police chief had simply suppressed Neville's story...
With General Vaughan standing in his usual place behind him, Mr. Truman faced the press. Had the President heard that "General Vaughan was mixed up in all this?" The President had read the newspaper stories, he said, but didn't believe them. General Vaughan smiled sadly. Did Mr. Truman "believe General Vaughan's statement [blurted out in anger] that there are 300 five-percenters in Washington?" General Vaughan glared at the questioner. Mr. Truman avowed he didn't know anything about it. The newspaper fellows were supposed to know all about those things...
...snag the high-price trade, Du Mont Laboratories, Inc. last week brought out a console model with a 19-in. tube (the biggest ever made), to sell for $725. Magnavox Co. bragged that its three new 16-in. sets had the largest picture area (148 sq. in. v. the usual 126) of any 16-in. set now on the market (prices: $399-5° to $595). Westinghouse Electric Corp., to calm dealers' fears of inventory losses, adopted the policy of guaranteeing its television dealers against loss on any price cuts that might be made within 60 days after dealers...
After reporting for work as usual one day last week, employees of Houston's Crown Central Petroleum Corp. refinery settled down to hours of writing and rewriting lists of "grievances" against the company. It was a new sit-down technique. Explained cocky Arthur Hajecate, secretary-treasurer of the Houston local of the C.I.O.'s Oil Workers International Union: there is a loophole in the Taft-Hartley Act which permits employees to compose their gripes on company time...