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Baruch cited examples. Suggestions had been made that MAP arms be diverted from France to Bao Dai in Indo-China. "Are we then to weaken Western Europe for some halfhearted and possibly ineffective action in the Orient?" In Germany, "sooner or later we must expect a showdown-since Germany cannot be expected to remain divided indefinitely. Are we pacing ourselves so that we will be ready for that showdown when it comes...
...This is the real showdown," Australians said. "Either Ming will break the Reds or the Reds will break Ming...
...lingo for Prime Minister Robert Menzies-had made an election promise last fall to outlaw the Communist Party. The defiant Reds had called quickie strikes on the Melbourne and Brisbane waterfronts, tied up shipments of wool and meat abroad. A fortnight ago Ming's government moved toward a showdown by invoking the Emergency Crimes Act (first passed in 1914 against wartime sabotage), under which strike leaders could be jailed. "We will deal with Communists here once & for all," warned the Prime Minister. To waterfront strikers went an ultimatum: either back to work, or prison for union officials...
...prices and thus force manufacturers to enforce fair trade minimums or drop them. Sunbeam Corp. and Corning Glass Co. also filed suits against the discount houses. At week's end, Macy's and the discount houses went right on price cutting, prepared for the court showdown...
Last week the Federal Trade Commission, asking for a showdown, cited three leading sellers of anti-histaminics for false and misleading advertising. The complaints were issued against the Anahist Co. of Yonkers, N.Y. (Anahist) and the Bristol-Myers Co. (Resistab), both of which, under their own trade names, market thonzylamine hydrochloride (also known as Neo-hetramine when prescribed for hay fever). The third complaint was against the Whitehall Pharmacal Co., which sells pyranisamine maleate (Neo-antergan) under the name of Kriptin...