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...Pattern in the North. In the South and West the Chinese Government's control was secure. The Government held some three-quarters of the country. But north of the Yellow River* (see map) it was all the Government could do to protect the big cities and keep the main rail lines open. The Chinese Communists, who lacked the strength to take Peiping, Tientsin or Mukden, controlled the countryside of North China and Manchuria. They could, and did, tear up rail lines (sometimes within ten miles of Peiping...
...Lewis met with U.S. Steel's Ben Fairless and Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal's George Humphrey. Reportedly Fairless and Humphrey had offered wage increases up to $13.05 for an eight-hour day. It worked out to around a 35?-an-hour wage boost, more than twice the 1947 pattern. But there was no assurance that Lewis would accept...
...more had been added to her list: a youth suspected of robbing parked couples, and a sailor who had tried to strong-arm her in a public park, when she was walking her beat. Otherwise, Alice McCarthy's life had taken on a fairly sedate pattern in her middle age. She lived alone in a South Side apartment, went to the opera, studied French and Italian and went to Mass on Sundays. "I like all the finer things of life," she said...
...effort to excavate the humanity that pulsates under the drabness of Sunnyside, a railroad-side section of New York City where she lived after her return from Japan. Her characters all live in the same boxlike apartment house, and their humdrum lives shortly become caught up in a naive pattern which is spun without imagination. In this Grand Hotel without grandness, coincidence and sentiment are bigger than life...
...Pattern. In London, early in the war, Flight Lieut. Ray Amherst Scott was granted a divorce. Grounds: his wife had committed adultery with one Arthur Williams. Scott remarried her in 1943, was just granted another divorce. Grounds: adultery again with the same Arthur Williams...