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...important is that employers are now dealing with a seller's market in which labor commands wages far above peacetime levels. Thus some men can earn in four days what they used to make in six. Absenteeism is notoriously high right after payday, and the absenteeism-line (see chart, p. 75) has risen with weekly earnings. The cause of rising earnings is not rate increases alone but also overtime pay gained through the action of the 40-hour-week...
...department is keeping five people very busy. Chief Cartographer is Robert M. Chapin Jr., who started his career as an architect and still has the architect's gift of helping people to visualize a plan. On Chapin's staff are James Cutter, TIME'S specialist in chart-making, and Polly Sell, a fabric designer turned cartographer. The map department also has its own researchers-Margaret Quimby and "Murph" Williamson, who were picked on the recommendation of geography-conscious Clark University...
...more active years to develop his firm belief that, given time for research, he can foretell the weather through statistical periodicity-a theory with which meteorologists disagree. His last years, between 80 and 100, he intends to spend facing a large wall on which he will have drawn a chart of his weather predictions. When his forecasts go wrong, he will commit suicide...
...strategy, which began evolving last Christmas, was decided upon and accepted in principle by Britain and Russia last summer, had now come clear. Clear, too, now was the output achieved by the American arsenal in the first year of war-an output which, although measured in startling figures (see chart-), can be better appreciated by the American people now that its planes and tanks and guns are being used by their sons and brothers. What is more, they know that the arsenal is still growing...
...shortage of lumber for military needs; 2) but there is not enough lumber to fill all civilian demands. For wood is the last-gasp substitute for practically every other scarce material. Though production is 4% below 1941 levels, unfilled orders have skyrocketed to nearly 30% above last year (see chart...