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...registered in town as a permanent resident. Negro Composer Clinton Brewer (Stampede in G Minor), who spent 19 years in a New Jersey prison for killing his wife, and was pardoned last summer because of his music, took up a new career as an arranger for CBS and Count Basic's band. Last week his new career ended abruptly. He was locked up because his lady love, Wilhelmina Washington, was found dead, all cut up with stab wounds...
This eighth plan reflects most clearly the basic program contemplated by the Conference, which agreed that the best way to get more Catholics to live on farms and raise more children is to make farm life more attractive and to identify Catholicism with various movements designed to raise the standard of rural living. The Conference particularly opposed the present trend towards big mechanized farms and proposed taxing them out of existence by graduating land taxes to penalize size. It wanted people with a farm background put on family-size farms. It also wanted factory workers encouraged to live on small...
...first two-level ceiling of this type was established last fortnight over acetic acid. For acetic acid (familiar to housewives as the basic ingredient of vinegar) made by the inexpensive synthetic method, the maximum is 6.25? a lb. But for natural acid the maximum...
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, prices on 28 basic commodities have climbed steadily since August, 1939, the month chosen by the Bureau as the index month for prices. During two weeks last August, when the Committee was energetically, but unproductively, listening to testimony on the bill, the average price of all these commodities bounded upward by more than 50 per cent. And by-mid-September the price index had risen to 157. In other words, we're paying nearly two-thirds more for what we buy today than we did for the same products when the present defense...
...effectiveness of price-control seems conclusively proven by this time. In his testimony before the Committee, Leon Henderson, federal price-administrator, pointed out that in the 12 of the 28 basic commodities which have already been placed under price-control, the index had shown a decrease of 2.4 points during a given period. At the same time, prices in the uncontrolled division had risen from 154 points to 168, with foodstuffs rising some 10 points higher...