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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, the House also: ¶Rejected a bill to increase the pay of everybody in the armed services except recruits, along lines recommended by a civilian commission, after a year's study. Cost: $350 million the first year. Total monthly pay of a major general has risen only 11% ($805 to $895) since 1908 while a private's base pay has been boosted almost 350% (from $18 to $80). But since the new bill favors the brass, a group of ex-G.I.s in the House raised such a fuss that it was sent back to committee...
...Commerce Charles Sawyer, Harry Truman's good-will ambassador to U.S. business, brought them mixed tidings. For one thing, they were not alone in their doldrums; in April, Sawyer's economists had reported, the sales of all manufacturers slumped $1.2. billion from March to the lowest monthly total ($16.9 billion) this year. But Sawyer was optimistic : the gross national output, as he pointed out later in the week, was still running ahead of 1948, there was still a strong demand in many lines, and price supports and unemployment benefits would cushion any decline in incomes. For the steelmakers...
...testing grounds at San Antonio. Copolymer has driven one of the world's largest fleets of trucks and autos a total of 26 million miles on cold rubber tires, reported "phenomenal" increases in wear (sample claim: 40.000 miles for an auto tire). Said Copolymer's Freedlander: "If all U.S. replacement tires had been made of cold rubber last year, U.S. motorists would have saved $200 million...
Before the year is out. conversions at Government plants operated by Goodrich, Goodyear, Firestone, U.S. Rubber & General 200,000 tons, one-seventh of the nation's total consumption of rubber of all kinds. At last week's dedication of the Copolymer plant, rubber experts privately predicted that, within ten years, the U.S. would be using cold rubber almost entirely...
...People were never thoroughly contented with me," Goethe confided in his last years to Johann Peter Eckermann, the youth who was to become his Boswell. "[They] always wished me otherwise than it has pleased God to make me ... People expected from me some modest expression, humbly setting forth the total unworthiness of my person and my work ... I believed in God and in Nature, and in the triumph of good over evil; but this was not enough for pious souls: I was also required to believe other points, which were opposed to the feeling of my soul for truth...