Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...power and gas-restively awaited the outcome of their own demands for wage increases. "We must give moral support to the tramway workers," said one union boss. "If they fail we are bound to collapse. Our strike is not political; we have wives and children to care for." At week's end, Hong Kong's colonial government announced that it had assumed sweeping emergency powers, including the right to requisition manpower, bar strikes and lockouts. This may have pleased Hong Kong's employers, but the chances were that it pleased the Communists on the other side...
Hungary's Communist government last week took over almost every privately owned plant and shop employing more than ten workers. The nationalization decree included foreign-owned businesses. Interesting exception: Soviet-Hungarian joint stock companies (most of the oil, all aviation and shipping) were left undisturbed...
Waiters in Czechoslovakia's nationalized hotels and restaurants got new orders from the boss last week. Said the Communist organ Rude Pravo: "All employees are to ask their patrons to cease giving them tips because this is a dishonorable means of rewarding service." Tipping, the paper explained, was a "degrading reminder of the obsolete capitalist...
...this impressive ceremony, the Paris police arrested a man who, they were sure, had worked for the Germans, found that he was carrying papers issued by the "Wolves of France" certifying him as a genuine Resistant. The police began a long, slow job of unsnarling the mystery. By last week they had the answer: Lange and Salve were not really wolves, but jackals in wolves' clothing...
Arrested last week, Lange blustered,, but Salve grinned and admitted everything. They had never been in the Resistance; they had been jailed by the Nazis as black-marketeers. In the confusion that followed liberation, they had convinced a couple of high military men that they were heroes. Armed with recommendations from the gullible generals, and with other testimonial papers bearing the forged signatures of real heroes killed by the Germans, Jackals Lange and Salve set themselves up in business. By 1947 the word was around in certain circles that very authentic-looking Resistance papers could be bought from them...