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...desserts proposed in the original Council ballot were essentially more money-savers and will not be openly recommended, although such reductions would call for little noticeable belt-tightening. But with a well-organized collection of direct money contributions, students should find the assumption of their responsibilities even more painless...
...painless way of meeting commitments to export six million tons of wheat by July i, flour millers last week began to extract 80% of the wheat kernel instead of the customary 68 to 72%. This was no great hardship for U.S. citizens. What the new flour* lost in snowy whiteness it would gain in nutritive value; U.S. bread, usually flat, poor stuff, would gain in taste...
...milling which farmers feed their livestock and poultry. With feed already short, chances were that farmers would hang on to their wheat for feed. They had another reason. They hoped to have ceilings taken off farm products. Last week, Secretary of Agriculture Clinton Anderson tried another method, not so painless, to get grain. He boosted the ceiling prices on wheat, now $1.80½ a bushel at Chicago, 3?. Up also went corn, 3? oats, 2? and barley...
...entire operation is painless enough, now & then funny. Bing sings a few songs; Hope clowns and rolls his eyes at Dotty; the late Robert Benchley breaks in from time to time to put a gloss on the frozen custard-pie humor...
Quick, Cheap, Painless. Section 77 of the Bankruptcy Act was designed to make bankruptcy a quick, cheap, financially painless procedure for the debtor. It turned out to be none of these for the original security holders. As a basis for a railroad's reorganization, the Interstate Commerce Commission has had to make long-range forecasts of the road's earnings. ICC had warned that it could not do this, proved it by guessing wrong on at least nine roads...