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Since when does a Moscow gallery employ four-star generals as museum guards, as described in the footnote to the photo of Indonesia's Sukarno [Sept. 17 ]? That ''non-destalinized" personage in the uniform of a Red army general must have won many a battle with art patrons in his capacity as museum guard to have earned four stars, the Order of the Red Banner and four rows of ribbons. I wonder...
...Instituted by Music Czar James C. Petrillo in a campaign to force radio stations, bars and restaurants to employ members of the American Federation of Musicians...
More Work. The survey found that Negro unemployment in Houston has dropped from 11% in 1940 to "less than 3% of those who want to work now." Moreover, there has been a migration from the low-paying countryside to the city in response to expanding employment opportunities. From 1900 to 1950, while the Negro population of Texas went up 58%, the number of city Negroes quadrupled in the state. They are also getting better jobs. In 1940, only 2.9% of Houston's Negroes were in the professions; today the figure is 5.2%, of which almost half are teachers. Another...
...tankers and pile up fabulous profits because, like most independents, he whittles operating costs to the bone, runs all but a few of his ships under "flags of convenience." Registered by mail order in Panama or Liberia, the ships pay only nominal taxes,* e.g., 10? a ton yearly, employ nonunion crews and are unlikely ever to be seized for defense reasons. Niarchos, in addition, pays no corporate taxes on most of his profits. These are considerations which no banker can afford to overlook. As an approving London banker said recently: "The great virtue of Niarchos is that...
...hasten the flow of technology from laboratory to living room, some 3,000 U.S. companies today have their own research facilities, employ 500,000 research workers, including 100,000 scientists. Across the U.S., new research plants are springing up almost as fast as factories. In the past two months alone, General Motors dedicated its $100 million Technical Center in Detroit; U.S. Steel opened a $10 million laboratory at Monroeville Pa.; Union Carbide & Carbon Corp. moved into a $6,000,000 Parma (Ohio) research complex; General Electric completed a $5,000,000 Cleveland laboratory for the study of "psychological and physiological...