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...from Basic English, Winston Churchill gave Basic another boost,* this time in the House of Commons...
...Utilities. Even the utilities, which long ago were thought to be bumping against ceilings both as to capacity and profit, came through with a surprising rise. Commonwealth & Southern rang up $12,312,000 v. $10,375,000 in 1942. But giant A.T. & T. had harder going. To boost its net some $13,000,000 to $177,769,000, it had to heave up its gross nearly...
...great mass of corporations, both in & out of war work, many failed to boost gross fast enough to outrace rising costs. Typically, F. W. Woolworth turned in an alltime high of $439,009,000 in sales. Burly, shrewd Charles Wurtz Deyo, 63, Woolworth's up-from-the-ranks president, who broke the 10?-top-price tradition back in 1932, found that this backbreaking upshove in gross was not enough. Woolworth profits sank to $21,952,000 v. $23,539,000 in 1942. General Electric fared little better. It announced a record volume...
...Mexican Foreign Office recently announced that 90,000 Mexicans had been allowed to go to work in the U.S.-a welcome boost for a manpower-hungry nation. There would have been tens of thousands more if Mexico had not forbidden its citizens to work in Texas...
...favorite cause: pilots' safety. Since the airlines cannot expect to get any new planes this year, and are operating their skeleton fleet of 175 ships an average of 11.5 hours a day, the most obvious way to meet the enormous demand for air transportation is to boost the load each plane is licensed to carry. CAB has proposed to increase the Douglas DC-3 take-off weight limit of 25,200 Ib. by 1,000 Ib. and the 24,400-lb. landing weight...