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...General Electric also thought that the economy could adjust better without a fourth round of wage boosts. Last week it turned down the C.I.O.'s demand for a shorter work week, liberalized pensions...
Europe cannot redress the balance but it can, Marjolin hopes, adjust to it. The U.S. will have to help by letting Europe buy more from nondollar areas and export more to markets which the U.S. now dominates, particularly Latin America. Europe will have to help by more austerity of the British type...
...older. He has to worry about his "functional age." Last week Psychologist Ross A. McFarland of Harvard's School of Public Health told the Gerontological Society in Manhattan that a pilot is as old as his vision, or his "motor skill," or his general ability to adjust to the demands of his job. No exact age limit should be set for pilot retirement, McFarland said, but life in the sky certainly does not begin...
...problem for 1949 was for the nation to do so, adjust itself to a boom which had changed its character. It was no longer chiefly based on scarcities and stored-up war demand, but on full employment, and replacement demand, shored up by enormous federal spending. Businessmen would have to cut their prices to a new pattern of shrinking markets in many lines; labor would have to recognize that decreasing employment would bring a sort of buyers' market there also. It might have to reconsider "fourth round" wage demands in the light of benefits from a drop...
...voice of the bombardier came clearly to all hands at Bikini: "Skylight One, Skylight One. Two minutes before actual bomb release. Mark: two minutes . . . Adjust all goggles . . . Stand by ... Coming up ... Bomb away. Bomb away. Bomb away...