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...only buy positive action of the part of the Federal Government. Economic life has become too complex and too impersonal for attempts at improvement by lesser agencies to be effective. The precise extent of governmental control over economic activities id a matter for dispute even among Liberals, but the median of their beliefs would probably lie close to mild Socialism, encompassing supervision of essential industry, utilities, and basic resources...
...Emporia boy & girl wage earners (median age: 16) worked at 62 different jobs, mostly the usual peacetime ones of selling, waiting on table, house and farm work, soda-jerking, tending filling stations...
...estimated that 20 per cent of the new Freshmen are under 17 years old, and that less than 15 per cent are over 18. In peacetime the average entering age was 18 years and two months, but the war has driven the median down to a point slightly below 17 years, five months. Between two and three per cent of today's registrants will probably be 15 year olds...
...There were 2,845 cases of meningitis in the first five weeks of 1944, compared with 1,612 in the same period last year and a five-year median of only...
...peacetime, the average entering age was 18 years and two months, but the war has driven the median down to a point slightly below 17 years, five months. Over 85% of the men who started college work in July were under 18, and over 61% of the members of '47b fell into that classification...