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...Administration this year began a joint Government-business-labor effort to avoid work stoppages, end restrictive practices and reduce price increases in construction, the nation's most flagrantly inflation-ridden industry. The highly inflated costs of medical care could be brought down if a powerful union?the American Medical Association???would permit less highly trained "paramedical" workers to perform simple functions like applying bandages and giving injections. Federal purchases could be more adroitly timed to take advantage of favorable prices. Government regulatory agencies might abolish minimum rates for freight shipments and other transportation, and permit competition to take over again...
These regulations were issued fortnight ago. They interested not only the nation's great body of gunners but many a wildlife association???the National Association of Audubon Societies, the Permanent Wild Life Protection Fund, More Game Birds in America...
...world's largest annual professional gatherings?15,000 public school superintendents and teachers, members and associates of the Department of Superintendence of the National Education Association???assembled last week in De- troit. With them they had ten gold-lettered, morocco-bound volumes containing more than 4,500 tribute-letters to Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, written by enthusiastic U. S. school children. Though no prize had been offered, the idea, suggested by the N. E. A., inspired some 40.000 youngsters to send in essays, drawings, illuminated scrolls, a model of the Admiral's City of New York carved in laundry...
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