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...Outman's employes were not content for long. Soon after they had signed, they heard President Truman's wage-price policy speech, in which he declared that industry as a whole could afford substantial wage increases without price increases. The ability of big business to absorb the higher wage costs, said Manufacturer Outman, put smaller concerns at a disadvantage in the competition for efficient labor. The end result: "a production slowdown throughout the small manufacturing concerns...
Disturbance of telegraph and teletype communications is due in part to a phenomenon which stems directly from the abnormal electrical charge carried by the ionized atmosphere. The wires which carry the telegraph circuits absorb from the atmosphere sufficient charge to blank out the original current. Last week Western Union reported induced voltages five times those ordinarily present in a line transmitting messages...
...Colonial empires and sea power belong to the past. The future belongs to vast, continuous land powers (like Russia and the U.S.) with enough space to absorb the aggressive shocks of modern warfare...
...Yale? While the favored colleges grumbled over indigestion, lesser schools complained of malnutrition. The Association of American Colleges estimated that smaller colleges could absorb an extra 250,000 students. So far, 41% of all back-to-school G.I.s had packed into 38 schools, largely ignoring 712 other fully accredited colleges. In some cases the G.I. was only guilty of trying for the best-why go to Podunk College, when the Government will send you to Yale? But others had a better reason: they wanted training in trades or professions which small liberal arts colleges were not equipped to teach...
...entering today will find the University fast returning to something of a normal atmosphere. Every branch is flooded with applications for admission and has been forced to turn down the majority of those seeking to enter. Special veterans problems, such as course credit, housing and finances absorb much of the deans' time. There is "joint instruction" (not co-education...