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...Detroit Tiger Pitcher Virgil Trucks (5-15), his second no-hit, no-run game of the season, over the league-leading New York Yankees, 1-0, after only three Yankees reached first base, two on errors, one on a walk; in New York...
Shooing Away. The Nationalists reacted quickly. Before Britain formally recognized the Reds in January 1950, they had sold the planes to Civil Air Transport, Inc. (C.A.T.), a corporation chartered in the U.S. by Major General Claire Chennault of wartime Flying Tiger fame, longtime air adviser to Chiang Kaishek. Then came two years of expensive court cases; each time, the Hong Kong courts upheld the Communist claim to the planes. Red guards were admitted to the British airfield where the planes were parked: they shooed away all visitors. Finally Chennault took his appeal to Britain's court of last resort...
...Fined 30,000 Cantonese firms and confiscated 600 factories for failure to pay up. But the bosses agreed that some mistakes had been made. In their zeal to get at the helpless tigers, said the Peking People's Daily, party members had classified too many merchants as "half law-abiding," when they were entitled to a higher rating, to wit, "essentially law-abiding." South China's railroad system had broken down when the tiger hunters sacked its entire staff. So many businesses had been ruined that "trade outlets had lapsed into inactivity...
...stave off a complete collapse of business, the Reds last week called off the hunt. To the impoverished tigers that remain, junketing Red commissars explained Peking's new "policy of positive help." Now that businessmen have been relieved of their property and savings, it is their patriotic duty, the commissars said, to pitch in and put the People's economy back on its feet. At least until the next tiger hunt...
...could not get them out of the National League's second division this year. Last week Robert ("Red") Rolfe, onetime New York Yankee third baseman, became the fourth to go. After 3½ years on the job, he was fired as manager of the last-place Detroit Tigers. New Tiger manager (with a contract for the duration of the season only): Relief Pitcher Freddie Hutchinson...