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Last week, the House also: ¶Rejected a bill to increase the pay of everybody in the armed services except recruits, along lines recommended by a civilian commission, after a year's study. Cost: $350 million the first year. Total monthly pay of a major general has risen only 11% ($805 to $895) since 1908 while a private's base pay has been boosted almost 350% (from $18 to $80). But since the new bill favors the brass, a group of ex-G.I.s in the House raised such a fuss that it was sent back to committee...
Scoops & Stethoscopes. Though Chicagoans read its stories every day, few have ever heard of professionally anonymous City Press. Reason: it is a kind of trade secret of the loudly competitive newspapers, which share its cost and its news. But City Press is probably the most successful school of practical journalism in the U.S., and its alumni are as well-known as the academy is obscure...
...quiet dexterity that won him a wartime U.S. Medal for Merit, he quickly organized the Caribbean Cement Co. Ltd., with himself as chairman (Ed Stettinius joined in as a director). He got a 19-year monopoly on Jamaican cement, and a scale of guaranteed prices (30% below the delivered cost of British cement, but still enough to make a tidy $221,650 annual profit...
...hardly fair to blame the failure on the plan itself. The NSA's idea--to persuade selected stores to grant discounts to student card-holders in return for the resulting increase in trade--is an ingenious answer to the high cost of learning. It was tried out last year at the University of Buffalo with some success, and has been instituted in 17 other areas all over the country. What with the new tuition hike and the financial pressures of living under the G.I. bill, any good plan for saving deserves a fair tryout...
Nine members of Congress today proposed a new, voluntary health insurance plan designed to provide the same care to the poor and well-to-do, at a cost scaled to each person's income...