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...west flank of the Seoul front, in the sector split by the road from Kaesong, units of the U.S. 25th Division and the British Commonwealth 29th Brigade had come under attack almost simultaneously. The Chinese were attacking all along the British line, against the Royal Ulster Rifles, the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers and the Gloucestershires. The British regulars had been spoiling for a fight ever since they landed in Korea some two months before, and now they were getting one. Said an officer at the brigade C.P.: "My best company commander's got bullet holes all up the side...
...Iranian government to accept much lower royalties from the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. (TIME, Jan. 8). The British government, which controls Anglo-Iranian, feared that the Iranians, who now get considerably less than half of Anglo-Iranian's profits, would never settle for less than a 50-50 split. In addition, Anglo-Iranian and the five other owners of the Iraq Petroleum Co. had just about completed long negotiations with Iraq on a new contract. Now that deal, too, seemed certain to blow skyhigh...
...split" allegedly went back to post-VJ days when the Russians occupied northern Korea. The first puppet Pyongyang regime had been a coalition of two kinds of Korean comrades. One faction, led by scholarly Kim Tu Bong, had been trained in the Chinese Communists' stronghold in Yenan. The other, under truculent Kim Il Sung, had a Moscow background...
...Moscow over tactics and controls in Korea (or over the much more important prize of Manchuria) is certainly possible. If these differences, like those between Tito and Stalin, lend themselves to exploitation, it is a chance " that the free world ought not to miss. But, at the moment, any split between the Chinese and Russians seems to be more in wishes than in evidence...
...bigger slice of the economic pie; the average U.S. manufacturing wage in 1950 rose 14%, from $56 a week to an alltime high of $64. Corporate profits also scaled a new peak. The estimated grand total after taxes: $23 billion, up about 27% over 1949. As their share, stockholders split their biggest melons in history. But dividends of $8.5 billion were still a much smaller percentage of profits than in pre-World War II years, largely because corporations were pouring so many billions into expansion...