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Help Wanted. To hire scarce women workers before the Christmas buying rush reaches its peak, Chicago mail-order firms, chain department stores and State Street emporiums competed with each other in alluring help wanted ads. Promised in some: daily siestas, convenient transportation, club rooms, discounts on merchandise, library on premises, home atmosphere, air-conditioned offices, low-cost coffee shops...
...sales taxes most state finances are in better shape than in years, with some 13 states showing surpluses, including New York, Illinois, California, Mississippi, Ohio. But: 1) The large increase in these collections is about passed since the national income at present prices is close to its potential peak. 2) States face radical reductions in their collections from gasoline taxes, which constituted about 24% of total revenues for the first eight months in 1942. In 1943 these will be off at least 35%. 3) Unless the whole burden of postwar spending is to be thrown on the federal government (thus...
...second feature, England's "Target for Tonight," is one of the most successful documentaries to develop from the Allied war effort. It's plot reaches the peak of realism, consisting entirely of an actual raid on an occupied port. The characters play their roles efficiently and quictly, as well they must, for their lives depend on it. The film is the best of all possible propaganda, actual truth...
When the Nazis rolled into France, the U.S. Army had only 137 chaplains. How many it has now is a military secret, but at least 4,000 ministers are already in uniform. This is nearly twice the peak total of U.S. chaplains in World War I. The 7,500,000-man Army forecast for the end of 1943 will require over 6,000 chaplains. Last week a survey of Army chaplains suggested that the Army's need for chaplains is causing something of a ministerial manpower shortage...
...Century-Fox boomed first half profits from 1941's $861,000 to $2,191,000; giant Paramount Pictures lifted nine months' earnings from $7,450,000 to $9,278,000; Columbia tripled June year-end profits to $1,612,000. Total 1942 movie profits may hit a peak since...