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Savings are necessary, Bingham and the Committee feel, to compensate for rising costs of travel and supplies as a result of the war, Only by such economies, they maintain, can athletics be continued at Harvard...
Drugstores, already working under fair-trade prices high enough for profit, have suffered least from ceiling pressure-one big chain (United-Whelan) is even planning a "ceiling-prices-smashed!" sale. Department and drygoods stores have enough leeway in fashion merchandise and "soft" goods to let them maintain the traditional competitive-price selling which keeps the words "sale" and "reduced" in the ads. In most retailing, however, the bargain counter is blacked-out for the duration; the ceiling price has become the selling price...
...major mystery is how the animals maintain their fixed cycles in spite of all such interference. Zoologist Elton concludes that the master factor is still unknown. He believes it may prove to be of a hitherto-undetected meteorological nature, hints at possible interstellar influences...
Formula for Future. Reasoned WLB: the real wartime increase in living costs started at the beginning of 1941, reached 15% by the time the President announced his anti-inflation program in April. Therefore U.S. workmen should have had a 15% pay rise in that period to maintain their standard of living. But only that period should be considered; for what has happened since, only workers at substandard wages can ask relief...
...example, there was a Midwestern newspaperman, now an Under Secretary of Agriculture, who went to the Institute to speak with obvious admiration of what he had seen in England; earnestly to recommend Britain's "great determination to maintain after the war the kind of equity in distribution which the war has forced." There was an Assistant Secretary of State who pointed out how the principle of Lend-Lease could serve a world commonwealth as it is now serving the United Nations...