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...Service Committee's Clarence E. Pickett and Homer L. Morris in 1934, at Westmoreland, Pa., to give that year's unemployed college students something to do. Since then the idea has been picked up by many schools and other groups. Combining some features of summer camp, settlement house, college and the CCC, work camps teach neighborliness, public service, respect for manual labor, self-government...
...overlooked a bigger fact: if dollars and gold are drained out of the fund they will drain into the U.S. to pay for American goods. In short, the threat is that the hard money assets of the fund will be spent in the U.S., particularly if American tariffs prevent settlement of these debts in goods. Other countries will be as interested as the U.S. in preventing this...
President Roosevelt gave one of the toughest of all Washington jobs to a Utahan last week. Pink-cheeked, balding, urbane Robert Henry Hinckley, 53, a onetime Mormon missionary and small-town schoolteacher, was appointed Director of Contract Settlement...
...Contract settlement will be one long cat-&-dog fight, and Bob Hinckley knows it. To avoid trouble, he will aim for speed, fairness and uniformity. Soothing irate industrialists who feel that their competitors may take off too far ahead of them will require a maximum of astute diplomacy. "It's staggering to look at," Hinckley said, "but I believe it can be done...
...liquidation of war production, wrote Dr. Kaplan, is divided into three parts. The first obstacle is called Contract Cancellation and Settlement, is similar to the one business traversed after the last war, and can therefore be quickly recognized. If the war ended tomorrow, uncompleted contracts would total $80 to $100 billion. But since the war is not quite ending tomorrow, this barrier must be gradually reduced in size whenever any part of it no longer serves a military purpose. Any prolonging of war contracts is a hindrance to speedy reconversion. At the war's end the whole obstacle must...