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...bureaus overlapping one another like shingles on a roof, Murray would set up over each basic industry a council of workers and managers, presided over by a Government-appointed chairman. Councils would coordinate all the facilities, materials, manpower in their separate industrial fields, so that steel, for example, would pour out as though from one great nationwide plant. Over all the councils would sit a National Defense Board. His plan, said Murray, was intended to bring labor, management and Government together, "everybody having their finger directly on the pulse of our national industrial problem...
Most successful method of malaria control has been to drain swamps and pour oil on stagnant waters. But on the island of Trinidad, this system does not work. A mosquito of different habits, the Anopheles bellator, was suspected...
Finally he bobbled a line, picked up the book for the first time and in a half-murmured apology said, "Haven't read it but twice." When he had finished reading, he slapped the book shut, began to talk about his ships' range, design, to pour out an endless flood of figures, dates, facts...
...business in Harvard Square is any criterion of national prosperity, Uncle Sam is pretty well off for the time being at least. A survey of store proprietors yesterday showed that Cambridge cash registers are ringing as undergraduate bill and coins pour into the tills...
...Last year's production was 40,300,000 bbl.-compared to 46,500,000 bbl. in the last pre-expropriation year. Exploration has almost stopped. Some of the movable equipment has been shipped to Japan for scrap, in exchange for the kind of ready cash that used to pour in from oil-company taxes. President Avila Camacho might well find U.S. oil know-how and oil capital useful-if only a way could be figured to save the face he must turn to his anti-gringo voters. One such face-saver would be a public admission on U.S. oilmen...