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...certainty that Congress would grant even that bare minimum. So far this year, the only aid to China which Congress had authorized was some part of the $350 million foreign relief program, which would probably be about $30 million. As in World War II, China was left with a thin trickle of supplies on the far side of a peacetime "Hump...
...less than a minute it was all over. Someone shouted: "Stop shooting." When the thin smoke of high velocity shells had cleared, five dead Negro convicts lay sprawled on the sun-drenched ground. Of the 22 others, eight were wounded, three of them fatally. Said a frightened survivor: "They mowed them down like wheat...
...coroner's jury tried to piece together the story. Warden Worthy, paunchy and thin-lipped, looking more like a schoolteacher than a road-gang boss, said that the trouble had started out on the highway when the convicts refused to work. He said that he had intended only to punish the ringleaders. He was defiant: "I got a right to knock 'em in the head and drag 'em to the hot box if I can't put 'em in anyways else." But he insisted that he had not fired until a Negro lunged...
Hard-boiled and well-fed economists might contend that the British were wrong to spend so much money on food and tobacco. But even with the dollar food purchases, the British diet had remained on the thin line that divides discomfort from malnutrition. If British workers had eaten less in the last year they probably would have produced less...
Gifted Hungarian-born George Tabori, whose Companions of the Left Hand was one of last year's most singular and striking novels (TIME, June 24, 1946), seems to have written this psycho-thriller with his left foot. A khamseen howls for days in Cairo, wearing tempers thin as the hot, gritty sand seeps through the doors and windows of the Pension Malika Farida. On the fifth morning of the storm, Adela Manasse, wife of the pension's proprietor, is found dead in her tub, naked and smiling a "kindly" smile...