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...subsidy of $2.50 a cord to anyone who would work in the forests. In eastern cities and suburbs, where householders use fireplaces for supplementary heat, wood was scarce and expensive. And householders whose trees were blown down in last month's hurricane were the victims of a new racket: for a high hourly fee, the snooty racketeers would deign to cut up the trees blocking the driveways. Then, for a bargain price, the victim was allowed to buy back his own wood-green and noninflammable until next winter...
...Dewey had learned discipline as a boy in Owosso. (Given a new tricycle, he was told that, if he fell off, he would lose the tricycle for a year. He did, and the tricycle went into the Dewey cellar for a year.) In his racket-smashing days in New York, he had learned how to drive home a point unsparingly. Now his discipline and his relentlessness combined in a new confidence...
...Ontario mining-commission report last week revealed a staggering yearly theft, highlighted a persistent racket that has become almost a tradition. Said the commission: a million dollars worth of gold is stolen every year from Ontario's mines by high-graders...
Recently the Army Air Forces released to Bell 450 new ear plugs that reduce the racket but let the human voice through when the riveting stops. Last week the new chief of the Bell plant, Colonel Carl Cover (rhymes with Dover), found that their use at Marietta had brought about a marked reduction in nerve strain and fatigue. What noise does come through the plug sounds like the dull beating of a heavy surf...
Aircraft production will be cut back 40% after V-E day, but the planes will be bigger by weight, production will still be close to its alltime high. The "numbers racket"-production of many models, causing bitterness particularly among maintenance men-will be curtailed...