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...when G.M. electrical workers abruptly ended their strike, affecting 25,000 employes at G.M. plants in Ohio and New York, a handful in Detroit. The C.I.O. electrical workers had secretly settled for an 18½?-an-hour wage boost. (The auto workers are demanding 19½?.) The settlement left Thomas "terribly shocked." Said he: "It put us in an awful spot, since G.M. now will come to us insisting that we settle on the same terms...
...forces were irreconcilable. It was UNO's job to deflect and cushion such forces, prevent them from colliding and exploding into World War III. The London meeting made it plain that the nations, pressed from below by war-sick peoples, had accepted UNO as the place of settlement-at least for the present...
...Dreamland. For Shanghai's emigres, it was truly an era's end. Penniless and wretched, they had come down from Siberia and Manchuria. In what was then the French Concession and International Settlement they had set up a bit of old Russia, full of hate for the new Russia. Blue-blooded officers became janitors and doormen, ex-millionaires turned waiters, titled ladies opened delicatessens, hairdressing salons and apparel shops like Avenue Joffre's "Madame Fanny Corsets...
...Ambassador William D. Pawley had reason to be pleased by these dramatics. Since his arrival in Lima last July, Businessman Pawley has been busy trying to be constructive. He helped arrange for settlement of Government debts so that much-needed U.S. Export-Import Bank credits might be obtained. He induced U.S. oil companies to spend money developing Peruvian oil reserves, and aided the Santa Valley project to exploit zinc and nearby Cañón del Pato water power to create a new electrolytic zinc industry. With the formation of a sturdy new Cabinet last week, prospects for Pawley...
Officially, Sir Archibald's mission will be "to help in the attainment of an amicable . . . settlement" between the squabbling Dutch and Indonesians. Unofficially, his ticklish task will be to extricate Britain soon from an imperial mess. For services rendered and expected, he was raised to the peerage this week...