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...born in 1914-15. The fact that they are so few has worried the French General Staff for nearly a year (TIME. June 5). Last week was announced a new scheme to fill the blank files. "To aid unemployment" there will be a great recruiting drive in April for six-month volunteers, open to all young men who have completed their military service any time within the past five years. There will also be a call for "Spécialistes," unemployed young men who are willing to take a chance on an 18-months' enlistment...
...Passenger traffic spurted upward. Soon a few Western roads slashed fares. Great Northern announced that local passenger traffic jumped 50%. Meeting in Chicago last fortnight the Western Association of Railway Executives voted to cut all fares in the territory west of Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans for a six-month trial period starting Dec. 1. The new fares on all trains: 1) basic one-way fare, 3? a mile against 3.6? previously; 2) round-trip tickets with more than a ten-day limit, 2? a mile. Optional with individual roads is a 2? rate for round trip with...
...will let banks have six-month money at 3%, provided they pass it on at 5% to NRA-ers. The 2% bank profit was expected to supply the necessary incentive. For collateral, R. F. C. will accept merchants' and manufacturers' notes on products, raw materials, plant equipment, any odds & ends not already mortgaged. The loans are to be used chiefly to finance higher payrolls until buying orders catch up with NRA wages. Such lendings will put R. F. C. into direct competition with the Federal Reserve system as a discount agency. Declared R. F. C. Chairman Jesse Jones...
...Edison Co. of New Jersey sent young Ike Hoover to Washington to wire the White House for electric lights. It was a six-month job. President Harrison, skittish about electricity, asked Ike Hoover to remain, take charge of the "incandescents," the bells and pushbuttons. President McKinley made him chief usher. As major-domo of the White House he ran its social functions, stage-managed the ceremonious presentation of diplomatic credentials, arranged seating lists for dinners, kept a check on calling cards, directed Presidential receptions, herded the Cabinet about, told distinguished visitors, where to stand, what to say. As guardian...
...Statue of Liberty went dark when lightning struck its power plant. So rough was the sea of Ambrose Channel that harbor pilots were unable to board incoming liners. Into Brooklyn was blown a baby Louisiana heron, with one wing broken. The storm gave the city a six-month supply of water in its mammoth reservoirs...