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...Navy made no attempt at a quick settlement of Brewster's tangled finances (the maze of conflicting claims between the Navy and Brewster total upwards of $20,000,000). Although he had left the company in the nick of time, ex-Boss Kaiser deplored the Navy's action of throwing 10,000 men out of work on three days' notice. With a look at Congress, which is making slow progress in passing a bill covering contract terminations, he warned: "This is a situation which many companies will face...
...Lacandones know little about the outside world. When told that Mexico once had a "landlord" (Spain), an old man replied: "There are no landlords here; only water, trees and sky." They had heard that a German lived in Ocozingo, a tiny Mexican settlement on the edge of their territory. When World War II was described to them, they got a vague idea that there must be much going on in Ocozingo...
...Federal Government is much too small, hope so too. The city owes its existence to the Duke of Wellington, who in 1826 sent Royal Engineer Colonel John By to build the Rideau Canal through to Lake Ontario, lest Americans close the St. Lawrence. Queen Victoria chose the resulting settlement as Canada's capital, after rioting Tories had burned the Parliament Buildings in nearby Montreal...
Window on a Nightmare. From 1937 to 1941, Editor Gayn's window in Shang hai's International Settlement looked out on some of the most terrible nightmares of the contemporary world - the Japanese attacks. "In the months and years which followed the rape of Nanking, ten million Chinese had been killed, fifty million driven west, more than a hundred put in subjection under puppet regimes. . . . For endless miles [Shanghai's] sidewalks be came the bedroom of a million refugees." A "baby patrol" went the rounds each morning, piling up mounds of dead children "like stacks of firewood...
...gave in only after President Roosevelt twice ordered him to comply. Then when the contract expired last December, Sewell Avery refused to renew it. This time, he claimed that the union no longer represented a majority of the employes. When WLB ordered Montgomery Ward to continue the contract, pending settlement of the issue, Ward's refused...