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...waste and inefficiency of unemployment were emphasized both in ethical and commercial terms when Secretary of Labor Willard W. Wirtz told the Joint Economic Committee that "more manpower had been lost in the past year of unemployment than in 35 years of strikes." Wirtz added that if unemployment statistics properly embraced young people trying to get into the work force, the poorly educated, the semi-skilled and the non-white, the jobless rate could be placed as high as 12 percent...
...Labor Department announced that 6.1% of the work force was out of work in February, the highest number in 15 months. Some economists blamed the increased unemployment on bad weather, noting that the biggest drops were in the weather-sensitive construction, farming and durable-goods industries. Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz, echoing a familiar New Frontier theme, blamed the trouble on something more basic. "Our economy today is simply not expanding fast enough," he said. "It must do so if we are to avoid an economic downturn...
...four flyers were Alabamans, residents of the Birmingham area and onetime employees of the Hayes Aircraft Corp. there. Riley Shamburger, 36, was a major in the Alabama Air National Guard and a World War II veteran, with more than 12,000 flying hours. Thomas Willard Ray, 30, was a former Air Force staff sergeant. Leo Baker, 35, had been an Air Force tech sergeant and a flight engineer for Hayes. Wade Carroll Gray, 38, had been a Hayes test pilot...
...scrape off the topsoil, with large earth moving equipment--such as motorizer scrapers and motor graders." Naturally this presupposes a plentiful supply of motor vehicles, gasoline, trained vehicle operators, food to sustain the workers, farmers to plan the new crops, crops to plant, and sufficient farming equipment. Willard F. Libby presupposes another set of circumstances when he writes, "In particular, during wartime and the years immediately following, it would be well to have the Public Health Service keep track of the radiation level in foodstuffs...
...Government called three experts: Edith Halpert of the Downtown Gallery, Daniel Johnson of the Willard Gallery and Eugene Thaw of E. V. Thaw & Co. The most generous evaluation that they placed on any of the baroness' paintings was $3,000. The baroness had her own expert: Alexander Kirkland, who runs a gallery in Palm Beach, Fla., where he had been exhibiting the baroness' work (without making a single sale). He placed the value of the triptych paintings at $28,000 each...