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...Eighty percent of nearly 600 books placed on sale were sold during the day, according to James W. Pirie, administrative assistant in the Library...
...ownership that, theoretically, should preserve the balance of power in the business community. In the same way the worker, union and non-union, lives with the fear of jobless days ahead. In his own way he attempts to accumulate enough fat to live through the days when twenty percent of those seeking jobs are frustrated, and the economy functions at a fraction of capacity. Each side labor and management, could be satisfied in its demands, given a stable full employment economy. But in an economic organism subject to violent cyclical swings from boom to bust, each...
Further reforms call for open meetings in the Houses and in the Union, primarily to nominate a slate for Council elections, but serving a double purpose in giving publicity to Council reports and decisions. The proposed constitution also provides for nominating committees in lieu of a 25 percent quorum in the Houses or a ten percent quorum in the Union...
...door is wide open, however, at the tradition-laden little shop of the Gold Coast Valeteria. Said Syd Goren for proprietor Benny Jacobson, "Our service has improved a hundred percent since last September, and we're not turning anyone away. We have a hand laundry service now, and every shirt is hand-finished, just like at the Chinese places...
...nation is hard at work and has already performed 'miracles,' as Mr. LaGuardia has told you. The greatest threat to our future is tuberculosis, which affects 60 percent of our children in the devastated areas . . . With U. N.- R. R. A. and the National War Fund terminating operations, we depend on American Relief for Czechoslovakia to send us milk, fats, medicines, and hospital equipment, which cannot be purchased anywhere in Europe...