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Vital statistics on the book: The volume is 888 pages long, and weighs three and three-quarters pounds. It covers American literature from "Mourt's Relation" (1662) to "For Whom the Bell Tolls," from the "American Magazine" (1741) to PM. Walt Whitman gets more space than anyone else (two full...
Social Security, in its present form, is a coin with several faces. The only part of the program which is wholly administered by the Federal Government is the old-age insurance fund, which now covers about 40,000,000 workers in organized industry. Employe and employer each contribute 1% of...
Unemployment insurance, administered jointly by the Federal Government and the States, now covers about 32,000,000 workers. For this fund the employer pays the Government a tax of 3% on the worker's salary. A small part of this tax (1/10) is remitted in States which levy on...
Catholic missionaries are making effective use of trailer chapels with living quarters and kitchens for the priests who man them and with a permanent altar opening in back for open-air services (see cut, p. 50). Typical technique is that of the Paulist Fathers in Tennessee, where their St. Lucy...
> Lloyd's of London, still doing business, offered odds of 1,000-to-1 that U.S. cities will not be bombed within a year. Specifically, Lloyd's offered insurance at that rate against bomb damage (or any other war damage) to homes, banks, hotels, etc. The rate for...