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...national minimum wage was raised from 40? to 75? an hour last week. The bill signed into law by the President will give an estimated 1,500,000 workers a raise of around $300 million a year. Harry Truman called it "a major victory in our fight to promote the general welfare," and said it "should result in the virtual elimination of the evil of child labor...
Army & Navy also had to practice a little self-denial on orders of Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson, pressing his own campaign to trim expenses $800 million. Johnson ordered the mothballing of 77 Navy ships, including two medium-and three small-sized aircraft carriers, six cruisers, 14 destroyers, nine submarines. Navy manpower would be cut 55,000 to 461,000. The Army announced that all 24,000 of the current draftees would be released after completing a year's service, and no more would be called in the "foreseeable future." The Army had to squeeze within a budget...
...years, when the big crop of war babies has grown and proliferated, the U.S. population will have risen to 175 million, expanding the labor force to at least 72,500,000 men & women...
...Cars in Every Garage. What would the rich, full life of 1980 be like? ". . . The United States will gradually become a country of two-car families," Slichter thought. "In another generation 70 million or more cars will be on the roads . . .Air conditioning in restaurants and office buildings will create the demand for much air conditioning in homes. The family-sized swimming pool is likely to become popular and millions of these pools may be installed...
...foundation was not enough for the judge. When he heard that Jefferson Military College was just about destitute, he offered to turn over the income of his oil-spouting lands. It was a handsome gift -somewhere between $5,000,000 and $50 million-but it was tied with tawdry strings. To qualify for it, the school was to pledge itself to exclude "any person of African or Asiatic origin." It must promise to teach "through every medium possible . . . Christianity and the superiority of the Anglo-Saxon and Latin American races." Jewish students would be banned, added an Armstrong spokesman, unless...