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TIME'S Paris bureau cabled last week: "It is a sober fact that there is only a small chance that France can avoid a limited form of civil...
Most important of Kosuge's new inmates was Takeo Kurusu, chief of the government's Economic Stabilization Board. With him were the Vice Minister of Agriculture and Forestry, the chief of the Accounts Bureau of the Finance Ministry and the chief of the fertilizer department of the Commerce & Industry Ministry. More were coming in all the time. As Warden Kojiro Ito rearranged his cells to give individual attention to the Oh-mono (big shots), police arrested former Deputy Prime Minister Suehiro Nishio, who left the government two months ago under suspicion of taking bribes. Premier Hitoshi Ashida...
Under the proposed plan, which is backed by the Kansas Medical Society and the Kansas Farm Bureau Federation, the university medical school and the local communities will cooperate in a threefold program to attract young doctors to rural districts. First, with a $4,000,000 grant, which will be asked of the state legislature in January, the medical school will be expanded to graduate 100 doctors a year, instead of the present 80. Next, individual communities will set up the graduates in practice at a cost of some $15,000, which the doctors will pay back in installments. Lastly...
Meanwhile, in Milwaukee, ingenious Robert Wright installed a TV set below the dashboard of his automobile, reported excellent results. Captain John Schoenecker of Milwaukee's police traffic bureau grumbled ominously: "It's the first I've heard of it, and it doesn't sound good...
...Price. Not so, said FTC as it heard the chorus of businessmen calling on Congress to do something. The ban on basing points, said Corwin D. Edwards, director of FTC's Bureau of Industrial Economics, was simply a ban on using basing points to fix an industry-wide price. Said Edwards: "Nothing in these orders prevents individual sellers, who act without collusion, from absorbing freight . . . In the future, as in the past, there will be a wide variety of geographic pricing methods in use by different companies and different industries. No particular method of pricing will be prescribed...