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...prospect of being a teacher forever began to depress him. He got out. He had been dreaming up ballads in his ample spare time, and for a while he sang them over Shreveport's station KWKH. In the late '30s Decca made a record of his It Makes No Difference Now, made another with Bing Crosby doing the singing, and Davis was in demand. Since then his records have sold more than a million copies, and Davis has acquired 450 acres of farmland. He calls the farming his insurance. "When a man's in the business...
Whatever it did to other people, this news last week did not depress U.S. biochemists. Their researches had discovered many substitutes for meat, some of them only a little less tasty than beefsteak and fully as rich in protein. (The Harvardmen found that only" a tenth of an individual's minimum daily protein requirement need be animal protein, i.e., meat, eggs, milk...
...needs to be stressed, however, that a social security program does not make it more difficult to insure an expanding economy at high levels of income and employment. It is not true that social welfare expenditures constitute a drain on national income and tend to depress the economy...
...Some observers," reported the Charlotte Observer, "inclined to the opinion that the delayed-baggage incident served to inspire, rather than depress, them." All agreed that Conductor Rodzinski had more than measured up to the emergency. Happily - for it was no dream - he had discovered in time the absence of a couple of influential trouser buttons...
...Boeing's women employes is Mrs. Sophus Keith Winther, wife of an English professor at the University of Washington. Mrs. Winther worked one 45-day stretch on the assembly line (eight hours a day) without noticeable fatigue. War defeats do not depress her; they make her work harder...