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Citation, second leading money-earner of all time ($865,150) and generally ranked with Man o' War, has been idle since he was "fired"* for an ankle injury five months ago. According to present plans, he will run in Chicago this summer. Shuddering to think of how much poundage handicappers would pile on him, Ben Jones is looking ahead to such weight-for-age fall classics as Belmont's Jockey Club Gold Cup and the Pimlico Special...
...average wage-earner has plenty to be melancholy about at home. He struggles desperately with the inflated cost of living. At official prices an average belt for a man costs 800 yen, a hat 2,000 yen, a pair of shoes 1,500 yen, a suit 4,000 yen. The black-market prices are twice as high, but if a Japanese boycotts the black market he will need a year and a half to accumulate the tickets necessary to buy a suit on his ration card...
...average American wage earner now lives to be 67.16 years old-four months longer than the average life span in 1947 -the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. reported...
...cent receives higher education, professional people will soon glut the market. This could not hold for the community college. Its graduate would not gain an LLB. or an M.D.; he would receive a B.G.S.; signifying that he had become a keener citizen by two years, a more useful wage earner by two years, a wiser family man by two years. What community or what nation can suffer because it is too alert, too prosperous, too wise...
...federal employees now participate in Blue Cross plans "because of the difficulties of handling subscription payments without the cooperation of the employer. ... In this important instance the much-maligned American businessman is way ahead of a federal Administration which has preached medical protection for the low-income wage-earner for the past 15 years...