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...Pont de Nemours authorized a flat 10% increase for white-collar em-ployes, effective June...
...jobs in the year ending July 1. Roads and streets topped the new WPA list with an allotted $413,250,000, followed by public buildings ($156,750,000), parks ($156,750,000), public utilities ($171,000,000), flood control ($128,250,000), white-collar projects ($85,500,000), women's projects ($85,500,000), miscellaneous work projects ($71,250,000), National Youth Administration ($71,250,000) and $85,500,000 for rural rehabilitation...
...later obliged to call in a general practitioner to treat a "puzzling pleurisy" which Medical Student Newcomer soon developed. She recovered, was graduated and licensed to practice medicine, went to Paris for postgraduate study, returned to Manhattan "to establish and run semi-public clinics for the so-called white-collar classes." She learned enough about what patients think of doctors to publish an emotional book on the subject last week...
...polls for businessmen, particularly advertisers & publishers, who wanted to find out the preferences, buying and reading habits of the public. His method, adapted from scientific research, was to sample a section of the public big enough to be statistically accurate, representative enough to include day-laborers, skilled workers, farmers, white-collar employes, millionaires, etc. in the same proportions in which they are found in the population at large. Mr. Hurja was interested because Dr. Gallup was applying the same method of scientific sampling to the voting population in a series of political polls. Nowadays Mr. Hurja apparently places much reliance...
...with a fresh $4,000,000,000 in his pocket and national elections still far away, President Roosevelt heard not a murmur when he announced that he might shortly spend $12,000,000 to $15,000,000 on a jobless census. Since he aimed to employ some 600,000 white-collar idle for the job, it seemed highly unlikely that the census would be conducted along the quick and economical lines of the 1917 draft at a cost of $300,000, as proposed in his column this week by United Feature Columnist Hugh Samuel Johnson...