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...78th poked cautiously along. Besides, there was nothing much to do in the way of legislating on a large scale. "Old Muley" Doughton had the tax bill before his House Ways & Means committee, and after a member had taken sides pro-or-con the Ruml Plan, he could drift on without mental travail-unless he was the serious kind of Congressman who faithfully attended all his committee meetings, answered his mail, ran errands for his constituents...
...figured in the drift of stars...
...tales told at war's end will not all come from men in the fighting forces. Red Cross workers will also contribute their share. This week, as the Red Cross opened its $125,000,000 War Fund Drive, some of those tales began to drift home...
...tapped his cigarette ash into the hearth and watched it drift down onto a pile of half-charred letters, mostly blue and pink ones. All that remained of a burned Crimson said, "Unassigned ERC Goes in February" "That one was no rumor," Vag muttered...
Manpower. More & more department stores will turn to self-service as the manpower shortage grows, more & more small retailers will close up as their one or two employes drift away to other better-paying jobs, or the owners themselves find they can make more money in a shipyard. Already turnover in jobs is fantastically high, some stores reporting 40-50% as against a normal turnover of 10%. Only hope of maintaining sales staffs at all is to employ elderly and middle-aged saleswomen, hire students on part-time...