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Last week the Committee for Economic Development proudly estimated that 52,000,000 Americans are already back at civilian jobs; that only 2,000,000 are unemployed; that reconversion is 90% complete in many parts of the country; that payrolls and individual earnings are only slightly below the wartime peak (see BUSINESS). The nation was stuffed with yeasty potential. Vogue welcomed nylons back as "a symbol [of] the pleasures of peace, distilled into one wishful word...
...blinked misty eyes, hesitated for words, said simply that he was "deeply touched." Then his easygoing composure returned. He rubbed his pate and quipped: "One thing I feel thoroughly certain of-it must be a bald peak...
...feeling very happy," said a U.S. Public Health Service official last week, "about the influenza." This winter's epidemic has passed its peak...
...Chairman Paul Hoffman totted up CED's cheery figures: 1) 52,000,000 workers already employed in civilian jobs; 2) steadily rising earnings, only slightly below the wartime peak; 3) production of civilian goods up from 50% to 75% since July...
...last week, in the biggest drop since 1933, it fell off $150,000,000. There was still the enormous sum of $28½ billion in circulation. Nevertheless, Manhattan bankers sniffed a trend. They suspected that the currency in circulation, which has almost tripled since 1941, may have reached its peak. But the Federal Reserve Bank was not willing to do any predicting. It was well aware that the peak after World War I was not reached till...