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...toward disarmament groups. The present movement in the opposite direction, he explained, is just part of "a continual shifting back and forth." Hughes pointed out, however, that President Johnson's cutback in armament expenditures and the unexpectedly early beginning of industrial desecration from military production might give new impetus to the peace movement
...Impetus. Labor Secretary Wirtz insists that hiring new employees instead of working old ones overtime would have increased employment by more than 900,000 last year, but industry hotly disputes this. In the steel industry, most overtime is worked when employees fail to show up for shifts, and no new hiring would be feasible in such cases. The auto industry has dragged in every available trained worker to keep up with the sales race, and Detroit companies have even gone to South Bend to recruit laid-off Studebaker workers. But there is no time to train green hands; automen need...
...million extra a week, and, with today's rapidly advancing technology, would not automatically lead to more hirings. "In the long run," warns Inland Steel Vice President William Caples, "anything that becomes expensive we eliminate-we engineer it out." The risk is that such penalties might provide the impetus for new breakthroughs in automation that would make unemployment even worse...
...biggest impetus to construction lately has been the headlong rush of investors to throw up new apartment buildings in cities, suburbs and practically anywhere they would fit. This eagerness pushed apartment construction up 19% last year, but caused some overbuilding in such cities as New York, Washington, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and Houston. One result: apartment building can be expected to slow up this year, holding the growth of all urban residential construction-which accounts for more than a third of all money spent on building-to a 3% increase v. 8% last year. Construction by businesses, which accounts...
...Robert S. McNamara-the single girl's best friend. His decision to exempt married men from the draft has been the biggest and best impetus for marriage since the shotgun! MRS. ROBERT M. ARMSTRONG (recently married) Battle Creek, Mich...