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With the deep-throated blasts from her funnels drowning out the catcalls from striking pickets on the pier, the Queen Elizabeth, world's largest passenger liner, sailed from Southampton last week with a full crew complement of 1,250. With that, the three-week-old wildcat strike of British seamen collapsed. Two days later the strike's organizers ordered their men back to work, and the strike, which had stranded hundreds of U.S. tourists and clogged British ports with merchandise, was over...
...President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines wants to encourage foreign-owned utilities to expand as part of a $500 million plan to treble power production and make private enterprise an equal partner in meeting the nation's needs. Said President Ruiz Cortines: "The objective of the government . . . is clear: to complement, advise and stimulate enterprise, not to supplant it." As a stimulating start, Mexico offered utilities more government loans, help in getting U.S. Export-Import and World Bank loans and-most welcome of all-rate boosts...
...puttering in his littered laboratory, interrupted often to accept awards and honors (most notable: a knighthood from George VI and, with Florey and Chain, a Nobel Prize), other antibiotics poured from researchers' vials. Some, like streptomycin for tuberculosis, proved to have sharply defined powers that penicillin lacked; others complement it with a spectrum of antibacterial activity...
Isaacs said that students interested in city planning should have a background in Government, Economics, and Sociology to complement their architectural training...
...endowment fund will complement the fund raising program. It will be built up by the transfer of the excess funds of specific sports at the end of each year to the credit of the particular sport in the capital fund, and by direct donations...