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...assigned frequency. Officially assigned on the same frequency are Palermo and Catania, Italy. With all three going at once in opposition, all England usually hears of Radio-Eireann is an occasional bit of brogue breaking through a great and garlicky palaver. Last week Radio-Eireann had still another plaint. For the infrequent times Athlone can get its signals across, some British newspapers have been failing to list its programs...
...block this measure of government reorganization, for the department's survey course has, in the past, been a black sheep of the social sciences. Popularly criticized by undergraduates, it has been found wanting generally in organization and integration, in cooperation between lecturer, reading matter, and section men. Favorite plaint was its inflation of Harvard Square bookseller's stocks at the expense of student pocket-books...
Thus last week spoke Dr. Harold Glenn Moulton, president of the Brookings Institution, before the annual meeting of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers in Manhattan. No mere plaint against labor was Dr. Moulton's argument. It was in fact but the converse of a familiar thesis, that higher wages and shorter hours are necessary to compensate for technological progress. The cause of 1937's slump, said Dr. Moulton, was that there had been not enough increase in productive efficiency to compensate for the raising of wages and the simultaneous lowering of working hours...
That foreign trade is a losing game, for them at least, is the shipping man's plaint the world around, for the following reasons : 1) there are too many ships; 2) depressions, tariffs and a thousand unpredictables hobble it; 3) profitable trade routes fluctuate as the breeze but commerce demands regular schedules. U. S. shipping men face the added complication that U. S. ships cost more to build and operate than foreign bottoms because of the higher wages of U. S. Labor. Astraddle this situation, which the Government has at last given full recognition after years of such temporizing...
Last week a new group rose to attack the bill on the floor of the House. Their plaint was not its size but its blanket appropriation of one and a half billions to be spent at the President's and Mr. Hopkins' pleasure. The rebels were led by Joe Starnes who demanded that $55,000,000 be earmarked for flood and drought control; Wilburn Cartwright of McAlester, Okla. who demanded $150,000,000 be earmarked for roads; Alfred Beiter of Williamsville, N. Y., who demanded $300,000,000 be earmarked for Public Works. They in turn...