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...exhaust its pool of 1-A manpower or change the criteria it uses for classification before any other. A board, for example, with only 20 eligible registrants left who are not students should not be required to furnish more than 20 men until other boards are also forced to dip into their student population...
According to the consistently accurate Michigan Economic Forecast, un employment will dip from the current 4.3% to below 4% - the level that the President's Council of Economic Advisers regards as full employment. The high-living U.S. consumer shows no sign of ending his five-year shopping spree, is currently spending 950 out of every $1 he earns. So durable is the boom, said the London Economist, that "analysts and businessmen may even stop counting the months...
Thus Lyndon Johnson has used the powers at his command to hold down wage increases in steel and among federal employees, to discourage U.S. in- vestments abroad, and to roll back threatened price hikes in aluminum and copper. Last week he said he would dip into Government stockpiles of wheat to keep bread prices from rising...
...VINLAND MAP AND THE TARTAR RELATION, by Thomas E. Marston, R. A. Skelton, and George D. Painter. Anyone who is interested in the controversy over whether Christopher Columbus was the true discoverer of the New World can dip into this pedantic tome for $15. Prepared by British Museum and Yale scholars who recently unearthed and authenticated a 1440 map that shows Greenland and a distorted North American continent, the book credits Leif Ericsson with a pre-Columbian look at the American shore...
Under IMF rules, Italy must buy up lire to support the price of its currency. To do his, it must dip into its reserves, using gold or another currency -- usually dollars -- to pay for the lire it buys...