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...summarily fired and 21 others demoted. One of the latter was Raymond M. Cook, a veteran of 20 years of teaching and school administration in Chicago. Turned down for a principal's certificate six years earlier because he was "disloyal," Cook this time was transferred to a third grade post at $1,500 cut in salary. Last year he quit to go to work in a war plant...
...some features of this vision are already in practice. Classification tests, mechanical aids, and language-teaching methods have been highly developed by the Army & Navy. First-grade-through-college aviation training has been adopted by some 15 states. Tolerance classes are routine in Springfield, Mass. Several school boards have established summer camps for individual schools. Especially in large cities, vocational high schools and work-experience programs are no longer a novelty. The fast-as-you-can-go college course is a going experiment at the University of Chicago...
...than troop movements When the monthly traffic over the western railroads shoots from the present 148,000 cars to 173,000, each of the seven railroads that snake their way through the Rocky Mountains will be loaded to capacity. A hot box, or a derailment on a single track grade up from the Great Plains, will call for fast rerouting of freight flowing through the rail-terminal bottlenecks at Chicago, St. Louis, Memphis and New Orleans...
...Swedes explained to OPA that pulp which sold at $40 a ton delivered to a U.S. port in 1939 should now be priced at $80 because production and shipping costs have gone up. U.S. ceiling price for a like grade of pulp...
Molly and Me (Grade Fields, Monty Woolley; TIME, April...