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...Biggest rap was taken by swank East Side apartments (seven rooms or over), where realtors found tenants beginning to economize by taking smaller units. Landlords, leery of giving tenants any weapon which might be used to beat down rents, did not talk, but last week the U. S. Census Bureau put New York City vacancies at 7.6% of all apartments (normal: 5%). Thoroughly alarmed at what Manhattan Realtor Robert H. Armstrong figures is a "25% increase in six years in available accommodations for tenants who can afford more than $50 per month," landlords and agents met to ponder methods...
...United States is the world's most self-sufficient nation in respect to the minerals needed for peace-time or wartime industrial production, it is stated today in the current Harvard Business Review, by Paul M. Tyler, Chief Engineer, Nonmetal Economics Division, United States Bureau of Mines...
Cherubic, soft-voiced William Lane Austin, director of the Bureau of the Census, met newsmen in the long, hot conference room of the Department of Commerce Building and made public his figures. Total population of the U. S. as of April 1, he announced, was 131,409,881. To his report of last spring's painstaking national nose count, he had few remarks to add. Chiefly he wanted to focus attention on what he considered the Census' most striking fact: from 1930 to 1940 the U. S. had shown the lowest rate of increase in population...
...subsidiary, Pacific Alaska Airways. Bossed by Alaska Veteran Joe Crosson, P.A.A.'s pilots operate in & out of Fairbanks, Whitehorse, Burwash Landing, Tanana Crossing, Ruby, Nome, McGrath, Ophir, Flat and Bethel. To help civil aeronautics and, in the long run, the defenses of the northwest frontier, the Civil Aeronautics Bureau is dotting Alaska with emergency fields, installing radio range stations for navigation at night and in bad weather...
Classes in remedial reading for those freshmen found below par on the recent reading exam will begin soon according to Stanley C. Salmon '36, Secretary of the Bureau of Supervisory Assistance...