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...soon as the SEC heard about the suit, it hastily withdrew approval of the stock registration until it could see how the suit would affect McCarthy's new company. Texas brokers, who have followed McCarthy's career with great interest, guessed that the stock issue might be delayed for weeks or killed entirely...
Flying Poison. But one implication of the test explosions is no secret. Atomic bombs set to explode underground are expected to play a big part in future warfare. Air bursts, as used over Japan, affect only the surface of the ground. As both sides burrow deeper, placing their vital installations deep in soil or rock, the atom bombs will go after them, sending rock waves to wreck them as no air waves...
Washington's Governor Langlie proposed that any delegations whose seating had been challenged by at least one-third of the national committee should be barred from voting on the credentials of any other delegation. This rule would affect 68 pro-Taft delegates from Georgia, Texas and Louisiana. Ohio's Clarence Brown moved that the Langlie resolution should be amended to except the seven Louisiana delegates...
...hence unreported-is that there has been a long-drawn battle which has been in progress almost since the start of the armistice talks." In this light, the Observer was alarmed at the way Britons were talking. "It is still possible to criticize the raids because they indirectly affect Manchuria and Siberia as well as Korea," it added, "but this, compared with the charge that the raids were a deliberate resumption of a discontinued war, is almost a quibble...
Said an old Syngman Rhee crony last week: when Rhee gets a critical note from President Truman or the State Department, his attitude is-"I know you don't like me and I don't care." Last week, obviously not caring how his acts affect his allies or the Korean war, stubborn, 77-year-old President Rhee kept trying to get his highhanded way and smashing at whatever interfered...