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...fact-minded Senator Robert Alphonso Taft wanted to find out what lay behind the talk of recession. That was part of his job as chairman of the joint Senate-House Committee on the Economic Report, which is responsible for recommending policies to maintain high employment. So Taft asked Dun & Bradstreet to gather the opinions of manufacturers, financiers, retailers, economists, labor leaders, etc. Last week, Dun & Bradstreet reported the results of its detailed questionnaire...
...saloon was decked out in bunting and all the regulars were in, having a singsong. And there was Jim himself passing out creamy pints, on the house, for all the world as if beer was water from the town well. "By the holy," said the men of Dun Laoghaire (Kingstown that was), "if it isn't the birthday of a strike Jim's celebratin', and his place the one that's struck." Outside the pickets paused now & then to nod to Jim's customers...
...important thing about this conference," said Washington's handsome, rosy-cheeked Bishop Angus Dun, "is . . . that the thing has taken place, and with a first-rate group of people! Salvation and health are certainly not the same thing, yet 'health' is sometimes a good translation for 'salvation.' ... I'd like this to be a national center where intelligence from all over on problems of mental health is combined and diffused far and wide...
There was plenty of action in the smaller rings. The price of hogs went up to an alltime high of $30 a hundredweight, almost double the price of five months ago. Many another commodity edged up enough to shove Dun & Bradstreet's weekly index of wholesale food prices to a record high. Some metals rose too. Lead went up 1? to a new high of 14? a lb.; copper worth only 14 3/8? under OPA ceiling rose to 21? a Ib. Silver, which had sagged to 70? a Ib. in February, now somersaulted...
...people who sent their children there were a measure of its success: they included college presidents (Compton of M.I.T., Conant of Harvard, Carmichael of Tufts); bishops (Dun of Washington, Nash of Massachusetts); professors (Harvard Law School's Thomas Reed Powell, Philosopher Alfred North Whitehead...