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...servicemen on active duty. The bill also provides a $56 million cost-of-living increase for 400,000 retired servicemen, grants a $10 raise in combat pay (to $65 monthly), and permits free mailing privileges from Viet Nam. It will probably be signed by President Johnson in time to fatten servicemen's September paychecks. In another slap at McNamara, a House Armed Services Subcommittee disapproved by an 8-to-l vote the Pentagon's cost-cutting proposal to merge the Army Reserve with the National Guard, supporting the argument of its chairman, Louisiana's F. Edward Hebert...
Though others may fatten...
...sticking to one color kept the assembly line uncomplicated. Tire production one year was fixed without checking the plan for motor-vehicle output. Taxi drivers were put on a bonus system based on mileage, and soon the Moscow suburbs were full of empty taxis barreling down the boulevards to fatten their bonuses...
...elephants, lions, buffalo and the tsetse fly in order to plant sugar. They still have not solved one problem: at night, hippopotamuses clomp out of the nearby Zambesi River, bed down on tender sugar shoots and crush them. Even the world's longtime sugar producers are working to fatten yields. Brazil, where sugar has grown in the north for 400 years, is converting many unprofitable coffee areas to sugar in the southern states of Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and Parana, and Mexico has built 71 mills, including the world's biggest one at Vera Cruz. The Philippine...
...addition to regular salaries, many American families also fatten their pocketbooks with second and even third incomes-and most of those are used as discretionary income. One-third of U.S. married women hold jobs, and many wage earners moonlight in order to build on an extra room or buy a new freezer. The consumer can make the economy rise by trading up from hamburger to steak, buying an air conditioner to replace the window fan or taking that long-planned trip to Europe. By the same token, he has the power to slow or reverse the economic advance by deciding...