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...world's biggest scientific group is the American Chemical Society, a polyglot organization of over 36,000. Its scientific cross section embraces professors, industrial chemists, $1,200-a-year research assistants-chemists high & low. Last week, in Manhattan for their annual convention, they were dazed by an unexpected gift. It amounted to $1,000,000 a year...
...purpose of the Canadian bill was to keep Canadian trade moving in the next three years when economic dislocation is likely to be greatest. Canada's war-booming industries, her own version of Lend-Lease ($800,000,000-a-year Mutual Aid program) have swelled Canadian exports to third among the world's trading nations. But four-fifths of this trade is in war supplies. War Creditor Canada has a heavy stake in remaining a peacetime exporter and a world trader...
...sinecure; 55-year-old Fred Gurley will earn every cent of his $60,000-a-year salary. The Santa Fe has a tough year ahead. Its Western divisions are snowed under by a record wheat crop...
Basil O'Connor, solid, slick-haired onetime law partner of President Roosevelt, head of his pet philanthropy, the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, was appointed by the President to a new $12,000-a-year post: Chairman of the American Red Cross, succeeding the late Norman Hezekiah Davis...
Premier Godbout flew to Ottawa, talked to Liberal chieftains, as quickly flew back to Quebec City. He summoned his Cabinet, then announced that Bouchard had been fired from a lush job to which Godbout had appointed him only two months ago. The job: the $18,000-a-year chairmanship of Quebec's Hydro Commission, which recently took over one of the biggest private power companies in Canada...