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...protect the honor of the fire department, no inspector was ever allowed to certify an unsafe burner or to wink at a leaky tank; contractors were forced to comply with the law before a bribe was accepted. If a contractor refused to pay, nobody threatened him; the collector simply waited for cold weather to jar him into paying...
...meat (ceiling price 14?) at the 59? ceiling for ground beef. Charles W. Wray was fired as boss of the state's Division of Food and Dairies after confessing that he had accepted some $3,500 in bribes from the racketeers. Since then, nine of Wray's inspectors have been fired and four restaurants closed down. Five separate investigations are under way, and two grand juries will soon get into the act. This week Chicago's Chief Food Inspector Gustav O. Hermann, under fire from the municipal Board of Health, handed in hia resignation...
...everything, had worried over the fact that "the three types of schools are bound to inherit the old traditions of class segregation . . . [with] some children resentfully concluding that they are inferior to [those] attending grammar schools." Last week the controversy boiled up anew when A. G. Hughes, chief inspector in the Education Officers' Department of the London County Council, published a book with some severe words for the whole tripartite idea...
...Spellmans' warehouse, the Government charged, was not big enough to store 100,000 bushels of grain in the first place. After the Spellmans started selling the grain, they took pains to fool any Government inspectors who might come along. At the top of the elevator, just below the catwalk, they hung small 275-bu. bins so that anyone looking in would think that the elevator was full. At the bottom, they kept just enough grain to cover the elevator door space, in case anyone peeked in. But they need not have been so careful. In the two years they...
Blood & Billions. General Alphonse-Pierre Juin, inspector-general of the French army, had been dispatched to Washington to plead France's case. The French were frankly alarmed. General de Lattre de Tassigny, the leader on whom France, and France's friends, had counted, was out of the battle (see below). The guerrilla warfare the French had been fighting since 1946 had already cost more casualties than those suffered by the U.S. in Korea-including the equivalent of three entire classes from St. Cyr, France's West Point, and ten sons of French generals. It had also cost...