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When Robert H. Hinckley, onetime $50,000-a-year executive at Sperry Corp., moved in as boss of the troublesome Office of Contract Settlement, he faced a mountain: the settlement of billions in canceled war contracts. This week, OCS Boss Hinckley reported he was well on his way to bulldozing it into a molehill...
...year ending June 30, said Hinckley, 56,721 contracts, involving almost $16 billion, have been settled. Now, fewer than 1,300 canceled contracts have been tied up more than six months in final settlement...
...Poland's Premier Edward Osubka-Morawski: all 852 square miles of the Teschen area must belong to Poland if ethnography means anything. Cried Czech Trade Minister Hubert Ripka: Even if the Polish claim were true, Teschen is so important to Czechoslovakia economically that she would not agree to settlement on an ethnographical basis. "If the Allies decide otherwise, they'll have to send their troops...
Patrick Henry's home, "Red Hill" in Virginia, was taken over by the Patrick Henry Memorial Foundation for $60,000, in a settlement of the estate of the patriot's great-granddaughter, Mrs. Matthew Bland Harrison...
Green Light. When the strikers refused to return to work, pending settlement of their demands (higher pay, vacations with pay, overtime pay on holidays, and a publisher-financed welfare fund), WLB declared their contract terminated, gave the publishers permission to deal with new groups, hire new men. With that green light shining, the papers announced that they would attempt to resume newsstand deliveries...