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The Flesh. By U.S. standards, living conditions in Japan are intolerable. Seasonal rice workers earn 4.29 yen a day (before war-time inflation, the yen was quoted at 23½ U.S. cents), war workers six yen. Japanese will pay a general income tax of 10 to 20%, a sales tax...
The Florida boom was so big that Press-agent Steve Hannagan no longer has to work at his job of puffing Miami Beach. The Army Air Forces flyers, transferred to Miami by Hap Arnold for rest and relaxation after battle experience, were paying as much as $40 a day for...
Worms & Snails. The M. & St. L. was a rackety, poor man's railroad long before it slipped into receivership in 1923. Begun in the '70s by Minneapolitans eager to challenge Chicago's monopoly of Midwestern railroading, the line stretched itself into 1,690 miles of jerkwater track...
Though Surgeon General Parran of the Public Health Service announced last week that infantile paralysis, nearing its seasonal peak, is subsiding nationally, the disease has almost reached the epidemic stage in the U.S. The nationwide total since Jan. 1 is 2,753 cases, more than double the figure for the...
Pink-cheeked, twinkling Biologist Bissonnette is one of the world's leading authorities on photoperiodicity - the study of the effect of light on animals' and plants' seasonal cycles. The earliest application of this science, so far as he knows, was by Spanish peasants who in 1602 used...