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...present the system is on the wartime three-year setup and there are only three top positions; the Varsity managership, the Junior Varsity Senior Associate managership, and the Freshman Senior Associate managership. These positions are filled by the top three sophomore competitors respectively...
Critics of the present system, under which there are basing points scattered through the land, have sought to replace it with an "F.O.B. mill" formula, whereby the customer would pay the actual freight charges. The industry contends the basing point setup is virtually F.O.B. mill. Steelmen were also quick to point out that they had been using the present system since 1924, when FTC outlawed the "Pittsburgh plus" system, which made Pittsburgh the basing point for the whole country. They suspected aloud that all the sudden hollering was just a political maneuver to take housewives' minds off high prices...
...where she heads a staff of more than 200. She will now cut down her M-G-M designing to eight or ten major pictures a year, delegate the rest to her assistants. MGM, anticipating profitable publicity tie-ins from the department stores, is entirely happy about the setup...
...were feeling a little starchier last week. In the last-minute rush of closing, Congress had authorized a nearly 400% increase in the number of permanent generals and admirals. Since 1939 the Navy had rated only 86 permanent flag officers, the Army 71 generals. Under the new setup the Navy would have 195, the Army 184 and the new, autonomous Air Force...
...sessions for parents (according to their children's ages), and for adolescents with personality problems. Church members are proud of the fact that of 634 of their boys in the armed forces not one was discharged for psychoneurotic reasons. Said Psychiatrist Karl Menninger after studying the mental hygiene setup of Dr. Burkhart's church: "It is the most constructive and comprehensive program I have seen carried out anywhere in America...