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Baldwin chopped his throttles, shoved down on his brakes. But he had only 1,000 feet of pavement left and the 60,319-lb. plane kept going. He tried desperately to groundloop to the left. Instead, it would not turn. The plane plunged straight on, tires screeching, tore down 100 feet of fence at the end of the field, lifted a little and skimmed the earth like a skipped stone...
...lost over 150 citizens in the disastrous twister of April 9) shivered when they saw the new storm coming last week. They assumed that they were still on the main line and dived for storm cellars. They were understandably hasty-the twister struck 40 miles south in tiny Leedey, tore it apart and killed...
...appropriations committee tore a $383 million chunk out of the Agriculture Department's budget. Funds for the school-lunch program, crop insurance, the land-use and conservation program were sharply sliced. The appropriation for insurance of farm-tenant mortgages was cut from $15 million to $1,000,000. Secretary of Agriculture Anderson wailed that the cut (32%) would deprive veterans of the money needed to start farming, deprive small farmers of subsistence loans, destroy the price support of perishable farm products...
...clock one morning last week, 20,000 Western Electric installation men tore up their picket signs and went back to work for an 11½? hourly raise. The six-week-old telephone strike, dead in spirit since the operators capitulated three weeks ago, was also dead in fact...
Love Thy Boss. From Moscow came a different kind of critique. In the Soviet magazine Culture & Life, Pravda Correspondent Yuri Zhukov tore into Hollywood with a party-line vengeance. The U.S. movie monopolies, declared the article indignantly, had actually abandoned the profit motive in order to reel off anti-Communist propaganda. Wrote Zhukov: "Hollywood films advertise American capitalists as noble, wealthy persons who should be imitated and obeyed. . . . They propagate patience and obedience on the part of submissive girl workers, showing finally how they win the love of their bosses or his son. . . . Crimes are incited by 'dangerous Reds...