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...that is to be sold-the others have been converted into hospitals.) In most cases, the Army bought itself a bargain: to build new quarters would have cost almost six times as much. By the time the Air Forces' 9,000 men move out of the Stevens in mid-August, their rooming house will have cost almost $700,000 a month. The annual rental cost would have been about $800,000. The Air Forces now face the fact that an unfurnished hotel in wartime is just about as valuable as an airplane without an engine...
...union would not demand a general wage increase now if, from mid-March to mid-August, each firm sets aside a special fund covering the cost-of-living increase for all employes from May 15, 1942 to March 15,1943. (May 1942 was the month when the "Little Steel" formula stopped counting the rise in the cost of living...
...mid-August, NBC came up with an answer: a professionally paced, smartly put-together show called Eyes Aloft (Mondays, 6 p.m. P.W.T.). Mainly responsible for the show's success is a smart Hollywood free lance radio writer named Robert Leigh Redd. Vetoing stuffy talks, Redd sold NBC and the Army on a heartwarming story of A.W.S. volunteers at work. Like an efficient census-taker, he visited 2,000 observation posts and filter centers, jotted down true stories of the modern air Reveres that give the program its dramatic highlights. Some of them...
Even with other good arguments on their side, the chains were badly scared, feared that only a miracle could save them. One miracle came in mid-August when hundreds of small storekeepers powwowed in Salt Lake City to hear anti-chain speeches. But they got a surprise when hard-hitting Joseph Frank Grimes, founder-president of the powerful Independent Grocers' Alliance (5-10,000 stores), told them: "You are not the victims of the chain stores and the supermarkets. You are the victims of your own fears...
...Gallup poll, which as late as mid-August had reported probable Democratic gains in the House in November, indicated that, on the basis of present sentiment, Republicans would gain 21 seats, mostly in Eastern and Midwest States...