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...place for this kind of education. Certainly they are not the only place for it. There is, however, an opportunity in college to escape at least the most violent pressures of special interest, and to gain at least a minimum of perspective. It is this opportunity that we must maintain throughout the war and into the peace...
This cooperative movement, Pu explains, which turns out $7,000,000 worth of war materials a month, can be broken down into three main divisions: the First Line comprising 200 cooperatives along the battle fronts which helps the army and the guerilla fighters maintain themselves and also provides a market for Chinese farmers who would otherwise be compelled to sell to the Japanese; the Second Line comprising 1000 cooperatives operating in the remaining unoccupied regions of China's Southeast and Southwest; and the Rear Line in China's far west which concentrates on heavy, permanent industry...
Last week Dr. Bachman was working on the first survey ever made of China's whole medical problem. Dr. Bachman's other job is "not to create new projects but to maintain existing ones which are dying from stress, shortages, inflation and war." Since Lend-Lease and the American Red Cross have taken over sending medical supplies to China the Bureau's efforts have been concentrated on three projects: > An Emergency Medical Service Training School at Tuyunkuan, Kweiyang plans to have a branch for each of the nine war areas, has five so far. To the schools...
Applying only to large firms (having annual sales in the year ending last November of over $200,000 and with inventories of over $50,000), WPB's order seeks to maintain the same relationship between gross sales and stocks as in the years 1939-41. Thus a merchant with average sales of $500,000 in the earlier years and stocks of $250,000 may now hold stocks worth (at cost) half of his current sales volume...
...under indiscriminate rationing of luxury, as well as essential, goods, all workers share alike, no matter what they earn. The more likely alternative is that universal price ceilings will give, and a controlled inflation will take place. This would penalize many a loyal worker, but it would at least maintain incentives for every man to work hard in the knowledge that he could use his money to bid for such luxury goods as are available on the market...