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Although the unions in Donnelley have never demanded a showdown election in the shop they nevertheless brought pressure to bear on the smaller print shops to walk out as a form of protest. Typical result: Although Chicago print shops had been doing work on direct contract with Montgomery Ward for years, they could not continue this work because part of the work involved was done by Donnelley. Another: Although two union shops in the East do all but the front cover engravings of an international air express edition of TIME, the Philadelphia shop would not perform its part...
...landlords were haled into court for violating rent ceilings. Throughout the land, OPA brought suit to enjoin 116 meat packers from "upgrading" standard cuts of meat, warned 4,000 retailers to fix their prices or else. These were not random actions but test cases carefully picked for a showdown on whether OPA is really price boss for the duration. For OPA investigations have shown that out of 12,000 groceries and butchers 40% are ceiling violators, and that 70% of 500 East Coast gas stations are disobeying OPA regulations...
...Nazis had a terrible sweetness to it. And in the Solomons, where individual fighting by U.S. troops has been more desperate than in any other spot, there were happenings to make the national pulse race. For days the Navy had merely hinted at what might be a final showdown. The U.S. people kept their fingers crossed. The three-day battle over, the Navy released its jubilant communiqu...
...Vichy radio reported that Bone, 50 miles west of the frontier fell at 10 o'clock to the swift Allied motorized and armored columns which now were believed very close to the border if some units had not already crossed for the showdown with the Axis...
...Three. Eli Yale, which recently announced a Yale Plan which provides for every man in college, has two more alumni than Harvard. The Bulldog graduates number 23, and there are 21 Cambridge-educated sailors. The Princeton Tiger will be somewhat out of the running if things come to a showdown. Ten men from Old Nassau are listed at the school. M.I.T. has 16 men in training...