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...simple: Londoners paid 2? a mile for short trips, 4? for long ones (the 40-mile run from Aylesbury to Upminster costs $1.60). For their money, they got clean stations and trains, smoking cars, daily inspection of tracks and equipment, up & down escalators or lifts at all stations-and smoother, if slower, rides...
Whether Ford's labor relations will be come smoother is still a question. Young Henry thinks that they will. At least, he feels that Bennett's antilabor record will no longer be a club for unions to belabor Ford with, nor .target for bad publicity...
...least reduced as soon as possible, to provide plenty of opportunity for private profit. There would be no splurge on public works. Private investment would be encouraged by low interest rates, and by loans from Government lending agencies. Wartime anti-inflation controls would be kept only for "a smoother, more rapid transition to a prosperous peacetime economy." Minister Howe named specific aims...
...semi-primitive work of Francis Guy and the smoother canvases of 163 other 19th-Century landscape painters are currently filling nine large galleries at Chicago's Art Institute. The show goes to show that U.S. landscape painting got off to a slow, painful start. Painter Guy was a determined, self-taught man, who began by tracing his first landscapes on a piece of gauze stretched across the window frame of a tent. But potential art buyers of his time were bored by landscapes: they liked only two kinds of art: portraits and historical paintings. Guy died several years before...
Last week Czar Hinckley made things even smoother. He put into operation a single cancellation system for both Army & Navy, and gave officers greater authority to make spot settlements of small contracts. Come V-E day, Hinckley predicted, another $20 billion of the contracts will be canceled. He expects speedy settlement of these-the War Department is now paying off on canceled contracts on an average of 45 days after bills are filed...