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...This week is Phonographs-for-Defense Week. Urged on by the U.S. Treasury Department, juke-box makers and operators tried to get Irving Berlin's promotional song, Any Bonds Today?, into the No. 1 spot in every one of the 300,000 coin phonographs of the land. The song (sung by Barry Wood for Victor, played by Kay Kyser for Columbia) is owned by the Treasury Department. A preliminary test in 5,000 Detroit juke boxes upped defense-bond sales in the area...
...rating to buy illegally 6,075 Ib. of aluminum scrap from Milwaukee Scrap Metal Co., 19,530 Ib. from Brodey Brothers; and of illegally selling for non-defense uses 2,739 Ib. of aluminum to Farnsworth Telephone & Radio Co. (jukebox castings), 8,787 Ib. to 0. D. Jennings Co. (coin machines), 17,199 Ib. to Mills Novelty Co. (coin machines), 5,613 Ib. to Haywood Wakefield Co. (railroad-coach seat parts), 3,962 Ib. to Eastman Kodak Co. (Kodak parts), 3,149 Ib. to Filtex Corp. (vacuum-cleaner castings...
Social Security, in its present form, is a coin with several faces. The only part of the program which is wholly administered by the Federal Government is the old-age insurance fund, which now covers about 40,000,000 workers in organized industry. Employe and employer each contribute 1% of the worker's pay to this fund...
...terms of Bank of England notes, foreign exchange was difficult, inflation loomed. A Parliamentary Bullion Committee met, wanted to resume specie payments. But Vansittart urged the country to stay off the gold standard, insisted that public faith in the Government was enough to make paper money a satisfactory coin of the realm. His side won. Inflation did occur and the national economy limped along until 1819, when, with Vansittart's views in complete disfavor, the country returned to the gold standard with a sigh of relief...
Command. On July 7 this sputtering, sprawling War in China will be four years old. Four years of war have hurt China a lot, but have also taught China a lot. The most spectacular discovery, for a nation in which military leadership has classically been an affair of coin and cunning rather than martial skill, has been that China could turn out first-class officer talent...