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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thirty white policemen soon arrived to disperse the pickets. The blacks retaliated by stoning white auto drivers on a nearby road. Prancing and chanting old tribal war songs, thousands of black men swept toward the location superintendent's office, set fire to a few buildings. Rioting continued into the night. Police and strikers exchanged gunshots. Three were killed, many others wounded...
Right Speed, Right Time. Gustave Marquot considers himself un capitaliste éclairé (an enlightened capitalist). He has set up a profit-sharing plan, health insurance, a pension fund. To combat absenteeism, Marquot has instituted an "assiduity bonus"-each worker gets 150 francs for each two-week period in which he has not been absent from work. There is no union at Marquot's. About 100 of his 400 workers once belonged to the Communist-dominated C.G.T., but the union fell apart six months ago when the secretary found himself unable to collect dues. Workers' gripes...
...original starry-eyed estimates by government experts had called for a total clearance of 3,210,000 acres of jungle by 1952, at an estimated cost of ?23,975,000 ($67,130,000). Production targets were set at 56,920 tons for 1948, and 277,676 tons for 1949. The ?23 million was spent, all right, but the return added up to peanuts. Only 49,620 acres were planted, which yielded a miserable 2,150 tons of groundnuts and 800 tons of sunflower seeds (planted in rotation with the nuts...
Last summer, when British Movie Director Michael Powell and Producer Emeric Pressburger set up their cameras in Britain's green Shropshire to film Gone to Earth, starring Jennifer Jones, the horsy set at the market town of Much Wenlock (pop. 14,149) were only too delighted to get into the act. Most of them had been too busy hunting all these years to read novels; they did not know much about the book's antihunting message or its sad ending in which the rapacious foxhounds chew up the heroine as she tries to save her pet fox from...
...Czech puppet Parliament last month passed a church law, by the usual unanimous show of hands, which made all clergymen employees of the state, and set up President Klement Gottwald's Communist son-in-law, Alexej Cepicka, as cabinet minister in charge of religion. The Catholic Church had consistently fought against the law; one manifesto, signed by 80% of the country's 7,000 priests, declared it "absolutely unacceptable." A memorandum sent to the government by the Council of Bishops a week after the passage of the law charged that it violated the Czech Republic's constitution...