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...industry's resumption, how many men will tramp the streets looking for work? At least four or five million, says Richard Allen Lester, associate professor of economics at Duke University. In the newest study sponsored by the Committee for Economic Development (Providing for Unemployed Workers in the Transition; McGraw-Hill $1.50), Economist Lester gave his formula for easing the shock of mass unemployment on the nation and its workers...
This advice came from Columbia University's John Maurice Clark, author of Demobilization of War Economic Controls (McGraw-Hill; $1.75), third of a series of postwar studies sponsored by the Committee for Economic Development. Said he: "To follow lines of least resistance . . . and disband all controls instantly at the end of hostilities would be an invitation to chaos. This mistake was made after the First World War with results which were...
Died. Roger Bresnahan, 64, oldtime great baseballer; of a heart attack; in Toledo. A native of Tralee, Ireland, "The Duke" took to his adopted country's No. 1 sport so featly that the New York Giants' famed Manager John McGraw made Bresnahan his No. 1 catcher in 1902. He caught Christy Mathewson, one of baseball's alltime greats, wore baseball's first pair of shin guards. Traded to St. Louis in 1908, ruddy, iron-jawed, black-haired Bresnahan served there as playing manager, retired from the sport...
...spare economist from the University of Denver, Dr. Abraham David Hannath Kaplan, returned from an economic expedition into darkest Reconversion last week with an assurance to U.S. businessmen that in the early postwar world they have little to fear. His report was his book The Liquidation of War Production (McGraw-Hill; $1.50), second of the projected series by the research division of the Committee for Economic Development...
...Full name: United Mail Order, Warehouse & Retail Employes Union. Ward's is currently suing the union's publication, Spotlight, for $1,000,000, alleging some 350 libelous stories. Month ago, Ward's $1,000,000 libel suit against McGraw-Hill for a Business Week article stating that Ward's had given a federal conciliator the "runaround" was dismissed by Chicago's Federal Judge John P. Barnes...