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Taking advantage of a new law, the burgeoning defense agencies had been solving their manpower troubles by offering applicants the top civil service pay scales-from $11,200 to $14,000 a year. Last year Congress provided for 400 such jobs in the entire federal service. This year the lid was lifted for the defense agencies, whereupon an estimated 500 candidates in these agencies alone were clamoring for such pay. Last week the President issued an executive order limiting the agencies to 150 such jobs...
...some, the new inflation spelled trouble. Harvard Economist Sumner H. Slichter urged the Government to clamp the lid on mushrooming consumer credit, now at a near-record $18.6 billion, and admonished businessmen to "exercise caution in the accumulation of inventories." Slichter thought, however, that if employment stays up, the current level of business might easily last for nine months to a year longer...
...lid blew off La Paz last week for the first time since the bloody 1946 revolution in which the capital's citizens hanged their dictator from a lamppost. This time the capital's schoolteachers touched off the explosion by demanding higher pay to offset the government's recent currency devaluation. Within hours, a raging mob was surging through the streets denouncing Conservative President Mamerto Urriolagoitia (pronounced ooreo-la-goytcha...
...Francisco Home Containers Corp. went east with its "Fresherator," put it on sale in 500 stores in Cleveland and St. Louis. The Fresherator is a glass jar in which food is hermetically sealed by an aluminum, rubber-rimmed lid, pressed on by hand. In a refrigerator the jar will keep easily spoiled foods fresh for days. The company has made 450,000 jars to date, sells them at prices ranging from 49? to 98?, depending on size...
Closing Chest. First published between 1923 and 1936, the stories show variations in skill and manner but they are ruthlessly fixed in mood and point. In The Riddle, one of the earliest, the lid of an old lady's silk-lined chest is eagerly opened by her seven grandchildren in succession-and is silently, fatally closed by an unknown hand, with the children inside. In Strangers and Pilgrims, one of the 76-year-old master's latest, a stranger dressed all in black visits an old churchyard and examines the inscriptions on the tombstones...