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...Jumps. Whatever MacArthur's resolution of the prickly puzzle, the new and strangely hybrid Japanese labor movement will be an important factor in Japanese life for a long time to come. In a little more than a year of organizing, 4,400,000 workers have joined 17,000 unions in the two big federations, the revived N.F.L.U. (National Federation of Labor Unions) and the N.C.I.U. (National Congress of Industrial Unions). This literally represents a jump up from nothing. The N.F.L.U. and its predecessors never got more than about 400,000 members in prewar Japan, never bargained effectively. Imperial Japan...
Side by side with this development has come the increased importance of education as an all-pervading factor, in national life. Modern communications and transportation have made the flow of public opinion and people both simple and vital. No longer can it be held that the level and quality of education in Texas has no effect upon life in Oregon or Connecticut. In short, state-operated education now plays an ever-expanding role in the country's existence...
...visit by the VTW is partly experimental, for it is hoped that enough of the Villagers will turn out to make further presentations by University groups possible. The size of Monday's audience will be the determining factor, said Hunt, expressing the hope that residents will show their interest by attending the first production at their theater...
...Toynbee's repudiation of the nation as history's central fact was Copernican, it also had an Einsteinian effect. For the relations of civilizations could not be investigated without introducing a new space-time factor into the study of history. Where, before, there had been nations, dramatizing their buzzing brevity upon the linear scale of history, there were, from Toynbee's vantage point, vertical progressions of human effort. Where there had been a plane, there was now chasmic depth, the all but unimaginable tract of time...
Principal factor on which BAE based its slump prediction was the declining volume of consumer purchasing power. In July 1945, real wages & salaries were a whopping 205% of the 1935-39 average, because prices had been held down while pay rose. By last December, real wages had dropped to 168% of the prewar average, because the rise in prices was outstripping wage increases. And the value of real wages was still shrinking. Wages & salaries, the backbone of consumer demand, had been 70% of all income payments in July 1945. By last December they had fallen...