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...wildcatters. So was the strong but unwieldy Transport and General Workers Union, to which most of the strikers belonged. So was London's long-suffering public. The truck drivers had struck in protest against union and government bumbling that had delayed for more than nine months a settlement of their demands for a 44-hour week and overtime pay increases (highest wage of a London trucker: about $22 a week*). Even the Government's delayed and reluctant decision to use troops to move food (most Londoners were down to half-rations of meat and vegetables and some were...
...meeting most of Jinnah's demands, Patel had passed back to the Moslems the decisions on whether or not they would enter the Constituent Assembly, which reconvenes this week. Patel, who has said that he could end communal strife in Congress Party provinces in six months, wanted a settlement; if he could get one, time would work in his favor in the struggle for control of India. He had the police power and his Hindus had the majority...
...surface, the settlement looked like a victory for Hughes. But most airmen considered the settlement little more than an armed truce. Reason: the $10,000,000 loan could keep T.W.A. flying along for a few months, but it still needed at least another $40,000,000 to pay for new equipment on order and get back into smooth air. (The price of T.W.A. stock, which held its own while Hughes and Frye were battling, fell 2⅞ points the day after they came to an agreement...
...mention of portal-to-portal pay, of income-tax reductions, of such an old troublemaker as FEPC. Foreign policy and foreign trade he dismissed with a lick & a promise-and an aside on "the difficulty of reaching agreement with the Soviet Union on the terms of [peace] settlement." One of his few specific requests was for the continuation of war excise tax rates-which he himself had just lifted by abruptly announcing the termination of hostilities (see below...
...first time the certificates would carry the words "Canadian Citizen" (TIME, May 27) instead of "British Subject"-official evidence of a nation's coming of age. For Citizen Elyniak it would be a fitting last chapter of his life, which is also the story of the settlement and growth of the prairie lands...