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Broad vistas for potential civil servants were opened last week, the Office of Student Placement announced yesterday, as it revealed a Civil Service Commission program entitled "Junior Professional Assistant."
Caves & Camels? At Lake Success, meanwhile, U.N.'s Palestine Committee threshed through preliminary speeches. Then, as the week ended, U.S. Delegate Herschel Vespasian Johnson read to fellow delegates the statement all parties had been waiting for. It brought instant reassurance to Zionists, anger to Arabs. Said Johnson: "The U.S...
Green Light. To keep the nation's railroads "in a reasonably healthy condition," the Interstate Commerce Commission granted their request for an emergency increase of 10% in freight rates. Exceptions on coal, coke and iron ore rates reduced the overall increase to 8.9%. Estimated annual increase in shippers'...
Atomic Soil. As TVA administrator, David E. Lilienthal was once the bogeyman of private power magnates. As chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, Lilienthal spoke soothing words in Detroit to free enterprisers. Reporting that commercially feasible atomic power was probably at least a decade off, Lilienthal added : "... This atomic...
Gas into Inches. The Federal Power Commission last week granted permission to the Texas Eastern Transmission Corp. to pipe Texas natural gas to Philadelphia and the Appalachian region through the wartime Big and Little Big Inch pipelines. Tetco bought the pipelines last February (TIME, Feb. 24) for $143 million, conditional...