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...lack of rain to an absence of sunspots, others to recurring drought cycles. In any event, parts of the Great Plains have received so little rain that they are actually drier than at the onset of the great drought of '34. Starved for moisture, the rich topsoil in hard-hit areas of the Great Plains is turning into a fine brown silt. Winds hurl the dust particles against the still-growing sprouts, until they lose their color...
...been with the Sox for 25 years, and like most pitching coaches, lectured for fifteen minutes on the virtues of "keeping the ball down." That's everything: Slack keeps charts of hard-hit balls, whether they're caught or not, and when he shows them to pitchers it is proven that for every one low ball, five above-belt pitches get just that--belted. The pitchers tend to respond by saying, "I know." "If I had ten pitchers standing in front of me now, I'd tell all of them the same thing--keep the ball...
...using unemployment or financial policies that inevitably lead to unemployment as a means of dealing with inflation. We are taking specific measures to diminish the impact of unemployment, particularly as regards juveniles and school leavers, and should be shortly announcing special help in the form of employment subsidies in hard-hit areas to help employers to keep on labor who would otherwise be joining the dole queue. That will be cheaper, in fact, to the government than paying dole, as well as socially much more desirable...
...same time, the automakers' sales drive has picked up some surprising outside support. Dozens of companies, some of them suppliers of automotive parts, others located in the hard-hit Detroit area, are also paying rebates to their employees who buy new cars. Sperry and Hutchinson is offering 50,000 Green Stamps (nominal value: $125) to car-buying employees. Gulf + Western, Libby-Owens-Ford Co. and Budd Co., among others, are offering $100 sweeteners...
Unemployment among the nation's 4.3 million construction workers in September hit 12.9%, more than double the national average. In some hard-hit areas like Chicago, as many as 3 out of 4 may be idle. The downturn in home building will cause other layoffs over the winter as its effects begin to show up in fewer orders for stone and clay, lumber, wiring and electrical equipment, steel and furniture. General Electric, Pittsburgh Plate Glass and Carrier Corp. have already furloughed some 1,500 employees as a result of the housing slump...