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There nine quislings were collared. In Commando-weary Vidkun Quisling's official newspaper there later appeared an angry complaint: other Norwegians had painted signs on the quislings' homes to identify them for the Commandos...
...once: a marvelous medium communicating news and home entertainment to scores of millions; a boiler room of advertising patter echoing in every cranny of the nation; (and much less continuously) a fountainhead of beautiful music, intelligent discussion, excellent reporting-all given to the people free. There was no complaint from the people. CBS and NBC indeed made plenty of money. But they pointed to the $8,000,000 a year they spent on their sustaining programs and affirmed that, in an economic society, virtue must have an economic reward...
...mean different things. Anaconda miners now work six days but on overlapping shifts so that the mines are never idle. Phelps-Dodge had planned to put its miners on a straight seven-day week, but crashed head-on with the C.I.O. The Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers Union's complaint: a man's efficiency declines rapidly if he is overworked. The union's proposal: increase the force and use three full 40-hour shifts, then install air-conditioning for still more efficiency...
...Uncle Dan Tobin mewed a complaint to his old friend Franklin Roosevelt. The Department of Justice whistled up its terriers, shouldered its blunderbuss and tramped into Minneapolis, raided the mousehole at Local 544, seized literature and Trotskyites, scruffed them off to court, accused them all of having wicked and revolutionary ideas...
...Complaint. In Indianapolis, Charles Z. Bondy, who said he was the great-great-grandson of a white girl reared by the Miami Indians, sued to recover Indian land taken by the State, asked $10,000,000 damages...