(4 of 12)
1. Transcontinental truck drivers.
2. Policemen in ten big cities.
3. Coal miners.
4. Petroleum workers.
5. Steelworkers.
27. A long and highly articulate career ended with death in Washington of "the Old Curmudgeon," once F.D.R.'s:
1. Secretary of the Treasury.
2. Attorney General.
3. Secretary of War.
4. Secretary of the Interior.
5. Secretary of Agriculture.
28. Late in October Las Vegas was spilling over with reporters and photographers as the AEC conducted:
1. Racing car tests.
2. Chemical warfare maneuvers.
3. Tests on the effect of bacteriological warfare.
4. New atomic tests on Frenchman's Flat
5. Green fireball launchings.
29. At the same time Las Vegas also witnessed Marion Davies' marriage to her Hearst-while friend:
1. Horace Gates Brown.
2. Walter Wanger.
3. Samuel Goldwyn.
4. James Roosevelt.
5. Amadeo Giannini.
30. The nation was startled and confused when Colonel James Hanley and General Matthew Ridgway released some widely differing:
1. Evidence on Army food consumption by Korean civilians.
2. Reports on plane losses.
3. Statements on how long the Korean war would last.
4. Communist atrocity figures.
5. Evidence on typhus among captured enemy soldiers.
31. Millions cheered stubbornly courageous Henrik Kurt Carlsen for his valiant but losing battle to:
1. Tame a shrewish woman.
2. Expose dockside racketeering in New York.
3. Bring his gale-battered ship to port.
4. Smuggle himself inside Kremlin walls for a heart-to-heart peace talk with Stalin.
5. Discover a cancer cure before he himself was taken by the disease.
32. Just before Christmas, rescue workers brought only bad news to the surface at West Frankfort, Ill. Reason: a tragic loss of life in:
1. A freak ice-skating accident.
2. A tugboat accident on the Frankfort River.
3. A. mine explosion.
4. A landslide in a gravel pit.
5. A limestone-cave accident.
33. A crash which killed former Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson and 28 other persons was the second of three air disasters to occur in:
1. Aiken, N.C.
2. Elizabeth, N.J.
3. Philadelphia, Pa.
4. Princeton, N.J.
5. Washington, D.C.
INTERNATIONAL & FOREIGN
Korean Stalemate
34. When Korean peace talks were finally renewed at Panmunjom, first tangible result was the agreement reached late in November:
1. That all troops be withdrawn as soon after the first of the year as possible.
2. On a cease-fire line at the 38th parallel.
3. On a tentative cease-fire line based on the current battlefront.
4. To admit Red China to the U.N.
5. To hold general elections in all Korea.
35. Another big step seemed to have been taken when Communists finally agreed that any armistice must be accompanied by:
1. Immediate withdrawal of all foreign troops from Korea.
2. Withdrawal of the Soviet air force from Manchuria.
3. Behind-the-lines inspection and control to see that neither side increased troops and supplies.
4. Formal U.N. Assembly ratification.
5. Free elections