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Some departures, however, from prewar tradition can be noted. Formerly the chairman of the class Redbook and the Captain of the Freshman football team were ex-officio members...
...starter, we had the names & addresses of our 418 pre-war French subscribers. Our Paris office augmented this list with candidates chosen from pages torn out of directories, telephone books, Who's Who (prewar edition), from lists of Government officials, doctors, lawyers, university professors and other professionals, businessmen (especially those engaged in foreign trade), teachers of English, etc. To decipher and cull these lists, remove duplications, get the correct addresses and salutations, we hired five French girls who knew their France...
...Government's cost-of-living index is now 125.5 (against the prewar norm of 100). With the upcoming price boosts, Governm.ent experts expect it to hit 130 before long. Industries where pay has been boosted have not yet knocked on Gordon's door for price boosts. But he feels that they will come...
...Output of almost all consumer goods was higher in August than in July. Autos, up 10% to 241,000, and refrigerators, down 1% to 218,000, were still behind prewar rates. But output of trucks (105,500 in August), tires (7,100,000), electric irons (608,000) and radios (1,700,000) was running far ahead of prewar averages...
...Inventories rose another $1.3 billion, now stood at more than $30 billion. But the ratio of inventories to sales was still below prewar levels. CPA said that better balanced inventories would speed production, lower costs...