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...Upshot of the debate: the Lords agreed (in principle) to add some $500,000,000 a year to Britain's budget for such family allowances. The Government promised to do something about them as soon as a survey could be completed. Lord Chancellor Simon shifted uncomfortably on the woolsack. Plainly, plump, redoubtable William Temple meant to press politically, as well as spiritually, for the sweeping social and religious reforms he proposed last year at the Malvern Conference...
Earl Perkins decided that something must be done. He called in a real-estate agent, asked him to sell or trade the house. Parker called on the same agent, made the same proposition. The agent introduced the Perkinses to the Parkers. Their wives liked each other. Upshot: a swap, home for home, even-Stephen for the duration. Each agreed not to sell or rent his own house for at least a year. They hired the same truck, halved their moving expenses. Perkins pays his $31.44 FHA charge each month, Parker pays $31.59 on his house. Perkins now drives three miles...
...maximum of 4,000,000 Ib. a year. If all of that were spun into the best hosiery yarn, it would take care of only about 3% of the normal U.S. women's hosiery market. Furthermore, long-staple cotton has important defense uses, such as powder bags, balloons. Upshot: many a girl who used to take pride in her legs will wear either seamless (i.e., shapeless) cotton stockings made from coarser, short-staple cotton, or knee-length "campus hose," or nothing...
...Upshot. The 30 schools proposed these prime objectives for U.S. high-school education: 1) every student should learn to read, write and speak the English language with skill and understand mathematics; 2) cut-&-dried textbook teaching should give way to teaching about the problems of modern living; 3) the concerns of U.S. youth should be the heart of the curriculum; 4) the schools should promote students' physical, mental and emotional health; 5) their "one clear central purpose" should be "to bring to every young American his great heritage of freedom . . . inspire devotion to human welfare...
Fireside Chats. At the White House that afternoon President Roosevelt and Mr. Churchill renewed their conferences. First upshot: 26 nations of the New and Old Worlds formally pledged themselves to employ their full resources against the Axis powers and to enter into no separate armistice or peace...