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Regional planning for Protestant churches got its first big boost last week. The starting point: two able reports on population shifts and religious needs around Philadelphia, made at Allentown, Pa. to the annual Methodist Conference for the Philadelphia area. Impressed, the delegates from the conference's 322 churches and missions voted a ten-year, $250,000 program by way of starter...
...good part on exports. The export market is virtually closed for the duration of the war, if not for good. Last month Secretary of Agriculture Wickard announced that his policy would be based on the assumption that it is closed for good (TIME, Jan. 27). He would not only boost the domestic market, as the Council is trying to do, but reduce cotton acreage and divert the South's land and energies to other crops. Last week the 215 Council delegates listened to hear whether their two biggest members agreed with the New Deal. For different reasons, they...
Bishop Stires' pension after he retires will be about $2,000, far under his present salary of $11,250. But friends recalled that for years he gave it all back to the diocese to boost the pay of its poorer-paid pastors, even now accepts only part...
...still loves the other man, lead to the high point of the play, a scene in which, fortified by a liberal dose of scotch, he decides to defend his mate by force, "like a tiger and his cubs." His eventual victory over the forces of ignorance is a wonderful boost to an intellectual ego shot to pieces by a week of midyears...
...Brightest report of all came from Government-operated TVA. Due to the "accelerated national defense program," TVA gave 10,000 happy workers a $1,000,000 boost in wages...