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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Australian News & Information Bureau New York City...
...anything else from his housing experts over a simple little idea of his own. Brooding over the problem of decently but inexpensively housing the thousands of Washington working girls, the President recalled how he had lived as a schoolboy at Groton-in cubicles with 8-ft. partitions, a bed, bureau, curtained cupboard, with a common washroom down the hall, with showers and toilets and 20 tin basins and 20 tooth-mugs in a row. This recollection looked good to the President. Said he: Why not build such dormitories smack on Washington's beautiful Mall, a 13-block-long stretch...
Died. Jesse Frederick Essary, 60, dean of Washington news correspondents; of coronary thrombosis; in Washington. He was chief of the Baltimore Sun's Washington Bureau for 30 years...
...There Enough? Estimates of this year's sugar supply range from Leon Henderson's pessimistic 5,300,000 tons (2,200,000 tons below 1941's record consumption, 1,400,000 tons below the 1932-41 average) to the Commodity Research Bureau's 8,360,500. The great unknowns are 1) the 1941 carryover, estimated by the Department of Commerce at 2,000,000 tons on Jan. 1; 2) 1941 consumer hoarding, which some guesses put as high as 1,000,000 tons...
Meanwhile the Consumers' Aid Bureau of the Student Council is continuing its fight against unfair business practices wherever it discovers them, and at present has an important case in court which should be decided shortly