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Ready to Encourage. The human problem nagging the President most is that of jobless workers at the end of their unemployment-compensation benefits, which differ widely from state to state, ranging from a 16-week time limit in Florida to 30 weeks in Pennsylvania. It was in an effort to ease the plight of such workers that President Eisenhower invited the governors' committee to the White House, presented a plan under which the states could draw federal funds to extend unemployment compensation for 13 weeks. Although the new plan included a complex formula aimed at maintaining the delicate balance...
...soon after an operation should the patient go back to work? While there is agreement that patients should be out of bed quickly after surgery (often on the next day), doctors differ about sending them back to their normal occupations. After appendectomy, reported Philadelphia Surgeon N. Henry Moss at a Manhattan conference, doctors recommend that their civilian patients return to light work within anywhere from five to 30 days, and to heavy work within seven to 60 days. The range was even wider after repair of a groin hernia in men over 50: from seven to 84 days for light...
Economists are particularly aware of the need for improvement in inventory figures, think that they can be misleading because methods of reporting differ widely, and some companies do not report fully for competitive reasons. Inventories are now dropping but the figures give no solid indication of how close manufacturers are to the bottom of their supplies and when they will have to start buying again-both vitally needed facts on which to judge an upswing in the economy...
...Arnold and Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz, Joseph T. McNarney, former Defense Secretary Robert Lovett, former Air Force Secretary Thomas Finletter and Los Angeles Industrialist John McCone, who served as special assistant to Defense Secretary Forrestal in 1948 and as Air Force Under Secretary in 1950-51. Although they differ in detail, all have advocated what amounts to some form of a general staff system...
Historians differ widely in evaluating Franklin D. Roosevelt's Harvard career. Some find him an average undergraduate; others detect a natural propensity for class leadership. Some emphasize his aristocratic background; others point to democratic tendencies. Some claim he had few friends; others assert he mixed well with people...