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Said the undenominational Chicago weekly: ". . . there is more sincerity in a cry to God out of the depths from one who has felt all the billows of disaster go over him . . . than in the routine pieties of many who habitually employ the standard forms of petition but have no actual sense of need. So there should be no cynical discounting of the reality of the religious experience of those men in foxholes, where 'there are no atheists,' or those castaways on rubber rafts who 'thought they heard the angels sing,' or those navigators of shell-swept...
...eight years, has led other mass movements in business. But none has approached the size of C.E.D.'s job. C.E.D. is working on the assumption that private industry can and must produce 40% more goods and services after the war than it did in 1940, and thereby employ at least 20% more workers than in that fat year...
...going to have enough jobs after the war to employ 10,000,000 returning soldiers and sailors, 5,000,000 new civilian workers...
...Warsaw, Ind. Unable to raise hogs successfully, Eggman Creighton started with chickens 18 years ago. He owned 38 acres of land and some equipment. His brother Russell, 40, had $1,500 cash. They bought 1,200 hens. Today they have 60,000 pullets and hens, occupy 1,400 acres, employ 55 people, are capitalized at $250,000, produce 30,000 eggs a day, ten million eggs a year, get premium prices. Last year they grossed...
...cope with the new money, grocery-men employ various devices: in Los Angeles a small store uses a cigar box with four compartments to sort out its stamps. In Atlanta another small grocer has his children work nights, and devotes all of Sunday to the job. In Philadelphia recently OPA failed to provide enough of the gummed sheets on which grocers are supposed to stick their ration coupons before turning them in to the wholesaler. As a result, salesmen of wholesaling houses came in with their pockets stuffed with ration coupons, dumped them into bushel baskets. The baskets were presented...