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Atomic Doodling. So far, only a few scientists connected with the Manhattan Project have been allowed to experiment freely with the pile's products. But outsiders, letting their imaginations soar, have dreamed up many uses: one possibility, a radioactive lamp that might glow for months or years...
...told, twelve U.S. airlines have already announced prospective new plane purchases of some $520,000,000. (Book value in 1943 of all domestic airline planes: $32,500,000.) Before long the total of new planes on order may soar to a stratospheric $750,000,000. To pay for these new planes, U.S. airlines have total working capital and equipment purchase funds of some $200,000,000. But no one expects that they will take all the planes now on order. Many a line is ordering more planes than it actually intends to buy, to make certain that it misses...
Devaluation had been long overdue. The franc's official value had been far out of line with its actual purchasing power in foreign markets; French imports and exports had suffered. But Minister Pleven, fearful lest domestic prices soar, had held up the remedy until the last possible moment. Once a country entered Bretton Woods, it was pledged not to devalue...
Although gross income for U.S. business will drop in 1946, repeal of the excess profits tax will keep net corporate profits at the 1945 level ($10 billion). But wages and salaries, because of lost jobs and less overtime, will drop some $25 billion. Unemployment will soar...
Last week the French made an international issue of the A. The French Office of Art and Creation charged that Russia, England and the U.S. had now permitted A to soar to a shrill 912 vibrations. Actually the U.S. standard concert pitch is 880, by French count.* France diplomatically offered to compromise with the Big Three at 880-which is still ten vibrations more than its classical composers allowed-if the Big Three will stick to its professed standard...