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Having climbed higher than the nation in wartime, said the state report, California has farther to fall. A large proportion of its workers are in the well-paid war baby industries, shipbuilding and aircraft. Thus, some 400,000 to 800,000 Californians may be out of work at war's end. To provide jobs the state must sell 25% more of its products to outside markets than in 1940, build up new industries. Concluded the report: "Neither California nor the nation as a whole are going to be as well off after the war as the wishful thinkers have...
...well-paid U.S. soldier, who has found himself a rich man in most of the foreign cities he has visited, had a rude shock last week. He discovered that in both Paris and Brussels he was little better than a pauper...
Since 1940, when Mississippi whites outnumbered Negroes for the first time in a century, an estimated 50,000 Negroes have left the state, heading north in the hope of better pay and a better life. An additional 12,000 have gone into the armed forces. Many are in well-paid war jobs; some have quit domestic work to live on their dependency benefits. The Jackson Advocate, a Negro publication, claims that scores are moving away daily because they are "frustrated and confused" by the South's racial bigotry...
Nicaragua's President Anastasio Somoza keeps his turbulent people in line with the help of a well-paid, wellarmed, brutal National Guard (originally trained by U.S. Marines who occupied the country in 1926). Governing more by corruption than by violence, he gets a financial cut on nearly every profitable enterprise in the country. Loudly "pro-democratic," he stands well with the U.S. Government...
...Well-Paid Cowhand. Nevertheless, Cinemactress Garson's life is rather like that of a munificently compensated cowhand. She gets up at a quarter to 6. She is at the studio by 8. She takes time off for a cup of tea (two bags, the cream goes in first), at 4:30. She invariably stays to study the day's rushes at 6. She is home by 8. Often as not, she goes straight to bed to eat her one ravenous meal of the day-a truckdriver's helping of Irish stew or rare roast beef. Their respective...