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...inevitably as warm weather breeds poliomyelitis, polio breeds panic. This year's epidemic, now nearing its peak, is bad-50% greater than last year-and worst since 1934 (latest federal statistics); San Antonio, Denver and Minneapolis have been especially hard hit. But the U.S. Public Health Service has pointed out that the cases (2,596 so far) are scattered, and that the epidemic seems unlikely to take on menacing proportions...
Wheat, corn and oats also dropped, along with butter. But old king cotton just kept rolling up. At 35? a pound, cotton futures were up 25% in six weeks to a 23-year peak. Textile men expected some of the increase to be passed on to consumers before long...
Happy Days. Clevelanders had something more to celebrate than a mere milestone. Their town had developed massive productivity and prosperity in the war years. Now it was still booming along. It had had a tremendous expansion-at the wartime peak employment .was up 99% over 1939's. Unlike many a war-factory town, Cleveland had suffered no serious letdown. Employment had snapped back and was still climbing-it was well over 155% of the prewar rate. If there had been no national strikes, Greater Cleveland's industries by now would be employing many more than...
...Farben in 1936 to supply the Wehrmacht's synthetic rubber tires. The plant manager told them that while there had been 11,000 workers at the end of the war, there were now 9,000, producing 1,500 tons of rubber monthly, about 60% of the peak of war production...
...July 12, present price levels lack only 10 per cent of equalling the January 1920 peak, according to the Department of Labor. Up until the June 30 suspension of OPA, the seven-year price rise of this war equalled that of a four-and-a-half year period in the last. Samples of the latest market increases, from another source, show hides up 74 per cent since June 29; shellac up 80 per cent; cocoa beans up 65 per cent; and foodstuffs up 30 per cent...