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...police began arresting leaders of factory workers' councils. Workers in a dozen plants struck in protest, and the roused patriots of Budapest tangled with Kadar's cops in the streets. Four died in one fight that started when Kadar forces paraded the Red flag past the West railway station. In the countryside scores were reported killed fighting against police and Russian soldiers -ten in the mining center of Tatabanya alone. The Budapest Workers' Council, chief spokesman for the rebels, posted word in factories that "if this keeps up, the workers will turn against the government for good...
...week Government lawyers submitted an unprecedented brief to a U.S. tax court in Cleveland to try to collect more than $2,000,000 in back taxes from Consolidated Premium Iron Ores, Ltd., a Canadian mine holding company and its owners, Cleveland Financier Cyrus Eaton, chairman of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, and William R. Daley, owner of the Cleveland Indians...
PULLMAN FARE HIKE of 7% starts Jan. 1 on railway sleepers if ICC approves. Pullman Inc. says raise will add $6,500,000 to annual revenue, offset higher costs...
...RAILWAY MERGER of profitable 1,800-mile Central of Georgia into 5,100-mile St. Louis-San Francisco Railway is being sidetracked by ICC. Examiner found that Frisco acted unlawfully in buying up 56.2% of Central's voting stock for $17 million, because it did not get prior ICC permission. If full ICC board approves, Frisco will be forced to surrender control of Central to triumvirate of Illinois Central, Seaboard, Frisco...
...local office must deal with an unusually large number of packages, mainly because Harvard has so many students whose homes are at a considerable distance from Cambridge. These packages are put in sacks according to state or foreign destination, and three times a day are sent to the railway station for distribution...