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...general feeling of the Islanders is that this is the kind of place vacationists want to escape from. The split between the ideas of two generations lies behind the whole dissatisfaction...
...college dean stated at a faculty meeting. "I fear Fascism as much as I do Communism." His action threatened to split university faculty and student opinion again on an old question...
Last week, in a Seineside workshop near Paris, salvage engineers were once again assembling equipment for a try at the Télémaque treasure. Anything they find must be split 50-50 with the government. They hope the brig will yield 25 billion francs. Wasn't that estimate a little high? the engineer in charge was asked. He shrugged his shoulders and stared riverward with a look peculiar to dedicated treasure hunters. "If we find just 200,000 gold francs, we break even," he said. "All the rest will be clear profit...
...another 1,500,000 working part-time. Millions of Italians still live in caves and huts, or jammed four and five into a room. Land reform, Italy's greatest need, has been imperceptible, in spite of De Gasperi's promises. De Gasperi's own party is split between the "Wasps," right-wingers who petition him to ease up on reform, and the Young Turks who repeatedly threaten to resign if reform isn't speeded...
...paid out $825,000 in dividends and more than, $2,000,000 in income, inheritance and other taxes. At the news, McNear estate executors decided that their job was done. They voted to turn over the railroad to estate trustees, and ask the ICC for permission to split T.P. & W.'s 50 shares of stock outstanding, now 82% owned by the McNear estate...