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...around the nation by TIME correspondents seemed to agree with Atlanta Hod Carrier W.C. Herd: "Something had to be done. If this holds prices down, it's bound to help." Many expressed no bitterness at the prospect of living on their current wages for 90 days. Says New York Policeman Jim Fitzpatrick, whose union has been negotiating with the city for a new contract in place of the expired one for eight months: "I think most ordinary people know that the few extra dollars they got were just being taken away by price increases." Striking Gunter David of the Newark...
...customers to buy steel at the cheaper rates, Bethlehem was only making public essentially the same offer that some other steelmakers were granting with their discounts. Other steel firms now are likely to find themselves compelled to follow Bethlehem's lead. "It looks like Bethlehem is playing price policeman again," noted one steel executive...
...panel issuing the report, appointed by the public schools' new chancellor, Harvey B. Scribner, was hardly composed of radicals. It consisted of a high school principal, a policeman and one representative each from the teachers' union and the association of supervisors. The four observers visited a 20-school cross section of the city's 92 high schools over a period of two months last spring and polled principals at the rest. Their most optimistic finding was that a majority of the schools were no worse off last year than the year before. Still, the "typical" city high school required...
Some months after the war ended, a former Japanese military policeman gave U.S. occupation authorities 23 sets of dog tags that had been taken from U.S. prisoners of war who were in Hiroshima when the bomb was dropped. In the confusion of postwar Japan, their deaths were never publicly acknowledged. Most were captured airmen, and most doubtless died in the first shock wave. But Eyewitness Tamura clearly recalls seeing the bodies of two American P.O.W.s who had been beaten to death, apparently with rifle butts, by their military captors...
...flight of stairs. His three-months-pregnant wife was also knocked down and stomped. A three-month-old girl was Maced in the eyes and left with a permanent need for glasses. At the end of the police rampage, no arrests were made. In fact, not a single policeman on the force will admit having been in the house...