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Against the U. S.'s 42.8 humans per square mile, Puerto Rico had 501.6 in 1935, up 176.1% in 25 years and soaring steadily. The New Deal has spent millions on the Island's economic rehabilitation, but students have long been convinced that the one basic remedy for the Islanders' appalling poverty is to cut their appalling birthrate. Every move to legalize dissemination of birth control information, however, has been stopped dead by Roman Catholic clergy...
...usual, both sides had backed down from their original stiff demands-the operators for a 40-hour week with no increase in pay, the miners for a 30-hour week, $1,200 minimum pay per year, a two-week vacation with pay. With the 35-hr, week preserved, basic pay was raised 50? per day-to $6 in the North, $5.60 in the South-with increases of 55?to $1 per day for machine and piece work employes. Also for the first time, soft-coal miners were promised time-&-a-half pay for overtime...
...Germany today, movie productions like The Autocrat are as much the work of the State as the law itself, and last week Nazis saw nothing incongruous in this method of introducing to Germans via the screen what is soon to be a basic change in German rights of property and inheritance...
...pronouncements from two of his most trusted ministers, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace and Chairman Marriner Stoddard Eccles of the Federal Reserve Board (TIME, March 29), President Roosevelt declared that prices-at least of certain durable goods-were entirely too high. As a corrective the Government would drop its hitherto basic policy of stimulating heavy industry, direct its spending toward consumer industries...
Pullman, Inc., because people are again riding in Pullmans at the basic 3? per mi. rate and smoke is again rising from its Depression-deserted shops along Chicago's Cottage Grove Avenue: net profits of $6,-347,000, compared with a loss of $273,728 in 1935. General Foods Corp. (So branded items from oysters to nuts), with the best sales since 1929:net profits of $14,241,000,compared with profits...