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Growing Pains. The cause of all this bedlam: 1) the sudden boom in commercial aviation; 2) airlines' management. Personnel policies are antiquated, pay is low and big-business methods are virtually unknown. Some executives believe that bigger, faster planes will solve things, forgetting that they will only cause bigger problems at obsolete airports. Rather than use the partial benefits of radar in its present form, the industry is holding out for an all-purpose system, which is at least five years away...
Chicago sweated as the woolly, wet heat topped 99°. But it was not too hot for lurid drama. For the first time since the Leopold-Loeb thrill murder of 1924, the home of sudden gunfire and anonymous funeral wreaths last week had a crime story juicy enough to appease its appetite. It seemed like old times...
...sudden revaluation of the Canadian dollar caught most capitalistic speculators unawares. But not Saskatchewan socialists. Last week CCF's Provincial Treasurer Clarence M. Fines told how the province had cleaned up close to a quarter-million dollars on revaluation...
...Washington, B.C., UNRRA Chief Fiorello H. LaGuardia, with a sudden and acute stroke of his bristling pen, halted all but emergency shipments to China...
...this ad in the Tulsa Tribune last week a merchant angrily said his say against the flood of rising food prices in the U.S. While Congress still wrangled over OPA (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), most manufacturers held the line on prices, worried lest a sudden boost bring back OPA with a rush. But food was something else again. The Bureau of Labor Statistics gravely reported that its food index had jumped 16.1 points last week alone. And with commodity prices rising all along the line, chances were that food would continue to rise...