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...takes to make a feared and respected slinger of the pen; the Friendly Editors will supply in concentrated lessons what you lack in experience. In Harvard's only course in journalistic style, all comers will learn how to be gentle, how to be sentimental, how to boost subtly a pet idea, and, last but not least, how to don the silver armor (which hangs freshly polished, semperparatus, behind the Managing Editor's desk) and ride roughshod over the tyrants of University Hall and drive the money changers from Lehman. They will be received in the dressing rooms of stars...
Almost a thousand more civilians will be enrolled in the University post-graduate schools, as more draft-exempt students boost lagging figures by taking up the study of engineering, law, arts and sciences, dentistry, public administration, and education. The Divinity School will enroll 75 4-D's, while the School of Public Health will cater to 40 students...
...three months Seattle's Boeing Airplane Co. has been frantically hunting for 9,000 more workers to boost lagging Flying Fortress production (TIME, Aug. 2, et seq.). Scouts were dispatched into the Middle West to lure workers to Boeing; the War Manpower Commission asked Puget Sound shipyards to lay off some 14,000 men; patriotic Seattlites went from door to door begging housewives to take jobs; a giant rally was held in the University of Washington stadium. Result: last week Boeing was swamped, had to turn job-seekers away. Boeing still needs some 5,000 to 6,000 workers...
...simple explanation. Skyrocketing war production knocked peacetime measuring sticks into the statistical ashcan. Example: the chemical industry. In peacetime, chemical production weighs little in FRB's scales. Thus, when the industry mushroomed under astronomical orders for explosives, the FRB index failed to show it. To rectify this, FRB boosted the statistical importance of this industry, added some 20 others to the index and found new yardsticks, e.g., in the converted rubber industry, man-hours worked replaced the former measure of activity-rubber consumption. All this forced FRB to boost the index 36 points to 243 (1935-39 average equals...
...Order of Lenin. The city of Perm was renamed Molotov; the town of Nolinsk. Molotovsk; the Red Hydropress plant in Taganrog the Molotov Plant. Alexander Lozovsky, then a trade-union bigwig, paid him a lush compliment: "Comrade Molotov combines Russian revolutionary ability with American efficiency." For helping to boost tank production, the Soviet Government a fortnight ago gave him its highest civilian honor: Hero of Socialist Labor...