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...Government agencies that account for more than 95% of expenditures in the executive branch. Task forces made extensive investigations resulting in 362 recommendations. They were often concerned with details, e.g., eliminate free hospital and medical service for all merchant seamen, but the specifics were woven into a broad pattern. The $3,500 saved each month by having a civilian concern clean the General Accounting Office Building in Washington was used to dramatize a recurring theme-private industry should be used to perform services for the Government whenever possible...
...Robert Harrington gently strapped Jimmy into the harness of a gadget called the pneumograph. When he switched it on, Jimmy's breathing pattern showed up as two wildly irregular lines on the moving chart. Then Dr. Harrington fitted Jimmy into a chest respirator (which he is experimenting with as a substitute for the iron lung) and a positive-pressure breathing apparatus, both of which, working together, made Jimmy's breathing deeper and more regular...
Jimmy spent an hour in the respirator. As soon as he got out his breathing fell off, inevitably, but not all the way to its original and inefficient nonrhythmic pattern. He was due for two more lessons this week. After three to six months, deeper and more regular breathing will be as natural to Jimmy as if he had been born to it. Then Jimmy will be able to speak better, to carry out more physical actions, and thus do more for himself instead of being constantly dependent on his mother. Other patients trained by Dr. Harrington have shown improvement...
...Peculiar Pattern. Tornado clouds are unpleasant subjects to study at close range, and so they are not completely understood. But practical information about them has accumulated. In 1948. Meteorologists Ernest J. Fawbush and Robert C. Miller were on duty at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma, when a tornado swept across it. After the disaster they went over their data on conditions before the storm and found a "peculiar pattern." Five days later they came to their office, took a look at the day's charts and saw the same weather pattern. They did not dare use the dread...
...that American is already paying higher wages than the Big Three, and its books are just beginning to show a profit (v. a $654,390 loss in 1955's first quarter). But last week the U.A.W. made it clear that the independents must follow the Ford-General Motors pattern. Said Leonard Woodcock, U.A.W. vice president and Reuther's chieftain for American Motors: American's auto workers need G.A.W. "even more than the bigger firms because of its ups and downs in employment...