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...over 1,000,000 workers; a fractional miscalculation could cost U.S. employers millions of dollars in paychecks. The farm support program is based on the Agriculture Department's calculations of how much farmers must pay for such essentials as tractors, seed and fertilizer. Since these calculations in turn affect the prices of farm products, the U.S. housewife meets Government statistics every time she stops at the check-out counter of the supermarket. Department stores use Federal Reserve Board retail-sales figures to plan buying and to control inventories. Railroads use Government figures for rate bases; makers of building materials...
...Last week's wildcat strike by 6,000 A.F.L. building workers slowed new construction at Oak Ridge but did not affect production...
...change of climate is slow and undramatic, but Dr. Frederiksen thinks that it is none too soon for governments to plan for the warmer future. The change will affect the economy of nations, the health of their people and the politics of the world. "Already," he says, "we are deep in the warming-up period...
...some who muse On the allegory Affect to find It a pious joke; To the beggar what use, For Martin what glory In deed half-kind And part of a cloak...
Rain dampened 25th reunion festivities at the Essex County Club yesterday, but it didn't affect the food...