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Willkie might have called his work "The Education of Wendell Willkie," for it marks the second phase of the rise to fame of the gentleman from Indiana. The first stage of his development came after Philadelphia, when the erstwhile corporation lawyer was introduced to the problems of public concern via a hard fought political campaign; it is significant to note that, as the time of his political education progressed, his political and economic liberalism ever increased. The 31,000 mile trip around the world via the Liberator bomber, "Gulliver," has begun a further stage of Mr. Willkie's growth...
...Senate, unable (or as yet unwilling) to rise up and oust Donald Nelson as WPBoss, this week passed a bill which would rip away a substantial half of his domain, and hand it over to an entirely new kind of czar-one created by legislation, not by Presidential fiat...
Bethlehem showed a skimpy $88,000 rise, but would have had no rise at all if its bald, bold President Eugene G. Grace had not taken a voluntary pay cut of $316,079, scaling his salary down...
...Rails. Last week's reports should dispel any lingering fears that the railroads will go broke without last year's rate rise which ICC canceled last month (TIME, April 26). Alone in all U.S. industry, the rails made a spectacular showing. Lumbering New York Central almost quadrupled its 1942 earnings, hit $16,100,000- a 14-year high. The wobbly Rock Island did likewise, pushing its net up to $8,800,000 (v. $2,300,000 last year); Denver & Rio Grande jumped from $463,000 to $2,474,000; Great Northern turned a $92,000 deficit into...
Once more on the rise, the per capita figure was up to 55 cents, as members of the undergraduate body, now estimated at 1770 men, relieved PBH salesmen of stamps and bonds totalling...