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...asked for 80 feet of seven-eighths inch sisal rope. The woman clerk who waited on him paid scant attention to the $11 sale. So far as she knew, the wispy customer was just another farmer, in town for the day, buying rope to break a balky horse or fix a hay lift in the barn...
...poisoned chop, John L. Lewis rejected President Truman's proposal for a yo-day truce and a three-man fact-finding board to settle the eight-month-old coal dispute. Wrote Lewis: "The mineworkers do not wish three strangers, however well-intentioned, but necessarily ill-informed, to fix their Wages, decree their working conditions, define their living standards and limit the educational opportunities of their children...
From the chambers of Superior Court Judge Paul Nourse, a Los Angeles Herald & Express reporter telephoned urgently for help last week. "Aggie," he pleaded with City Editor Agness Underwood, "we're in a fix. Judge Nourse has announced that there'll be no pictures taken in court . . . What are our orders: to shoot or not to shoot?" Snapped Aggie: "My instinct is to shoot." Managing Editor Jack Campbell agreed, so long as the pictures were taken when court was not in session. So Aggie rushed down to the courtroom a rugged reinforcement: veteran Hearstling Photographer Perry Fowler...
Abraham Lincoln once defined the proper length for a man's legs: long enough to reach the ground. Nobody has yet found such a simple way to measure the proper size for U.S. corporations. After five decades of sporadic U.S. trustbusting, the problem was still unsolved: Who could fix the boundaries beyond which corporate growth ceased to be healthy and became malignant...
...Rios Bridoux, Bolivian airman, was accused by the Civil Aeronautics Administration of flying in a "careless and reckless manner" and blamed for the Nov. 1 air collision which killed 55 passengers of an Eastern Air Lines DC-4 at Washington National Airport. The CAA, however, has no power to fix final responsibility; that is the job of the Civil Aeronautics Board...